Run results for: Split Join vs Basic string replace

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/136.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 136

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

Replace (SIMPLE)

5.4M/s

Split and Join

293K/s

Replace (REGEX)

222K/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ Replace (SIMPLE)	5,394,970 Ops/sec
Split and Join	292,555 Ops/sec
Replace (REGEX)	221,779 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var str = 'Abcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxy Abcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxy Abcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxyAbcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxy Abcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxy Abcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxy';

Tests:

Replace (SIMPLE)
str.replace("m", "$&Z");
Split and Join
str.split('').join('Z') + 'Z';
Replace (REGEX)
str.replace(/./g, "$&Z");