Run results for: how fast is regex IP?

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/142.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/142.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 142

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
instantiate new regex	20517758.0 Ops/sec
use existing regex	17216292.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

const prepared = /[0-9]{1,3}(\.[0-9]{1,3}){3,3}|([0-9a-f]{1,4}:{1,2}){1,7}[0-9a-f]{1,4}/gi;

Tests:

instantiate new regex
const ipstring = "43.193.33.82"; const r = ipstring.match(/[0-9]{1,3}(\.[0-9]{1,3}){3,3}|([0-9a-f]{1,4}:{1,2}){1,7}[0-9a-f]{1,4}/gi)
use existing regex
const ipstring = "43.193.33.82"; const r = ipstring.match(prepared)