Run results for: regex vs string replaceAll

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:144.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/144.0

Browser: Firefox 144

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 9 months ago

string

21.4M/s

regex

6.0M/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ string	21,371,256 Ops/sec
regex	5,991,582 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<!--your preparation HTML code goes here-->

Script Preparation code:

var str = 'Hello {first} {last}. Your first name is {first} and last name is {last}.'

Tests:

regex
str = str.replaceAll(new RegExp('{first}', 'g'), 'John') str = str.replaceAll(new RegExp('{last}', 'g'), 'Doe')
string
str = str.replaceAll('{first}', 'John') str = str.replaceAll('{last}', 'Doe')