Run results for: RegEx.test vs String.search

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:138.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/138.0

Browser: Firefox 138

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

RegEx.test()

63.8M/s

String.search()

44.9M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ RegEx.test()	63,780,216 Ops/sec
String.search()	44,939,516 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var REGEX = /abcdef/

Tests: