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RegExp constructor vs literal vs inline literal
Testing performance when using a new RegExp object vs a literal regex
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/122.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Browser:
Chrome 122
Operating system:
Windows
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
one year ago
new RegExp()
3.5M/s
Inline literal
3.4M/s
Literal
3.4M/s
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Executions per second
✓
new RegExp()
3,469,792 Ops/sec
Inline literal
3,428,925 Ops/sec
Literal
3,411,302 Ops/sec
Script Preparation code:
var reConstructor = new RegExp('^[0-9a-fA-F]{24}$') var reLiteral = /^[0-9a-fA-F]{24}$/
Tests:
new RegExp()
reConstructor.test('132abc67219f019afe12901a')
Literal
reLiteral.test('132abc67219f019afe12901a')
Inline literal
/^[0-9a-fA-F]{24}$/.test('132abc67219f019afe12901a')