Run results for: RegExp constructor vs literal

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.5 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 18

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Literal

351.2M/s

new RegExp()

304.6M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Literal	351,200,384 Ops/sec
new RegExp()	304,604,928 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var reConstructor = new RegExp('^[0-9a-fA-F]{24}$')
var reLiteral = /^[0-9a-fA-F]{24}$/

Tests: