Run results for: Split vs Regex

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0

Browser: Firefox 115

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Regex

30.5M/s

Splitting

1.1M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Regex	30,535,584 Ops/sec
Splitting	1,050,973 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var testString = "testing\nNewlines\nBleh"

Tests:

Splitting
var values = testString.split("\n"); var value1 = values[0]; var value2 = values[1]; var value3 = values[2];
Regex
var regex = /.+((?=\n)|$)/g var value1 = regex[0]; var value2 = regex[1]; var value3 = regex[2];