Run results for: RegEx.exec vs String.match

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:138.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/138.0

Browser: Firefox 138

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

regex.exec

32.4M/s

string.match

25.6M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ regex.exec	32,406,390 Ops/sec
string.match	25,617,018 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var string = "Hello world!";
var regex = /[A-Z][a-z]+ [a-z]+/;

Tests: