Run results for: replaceAll vs regex with g flag

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:145.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/145.0

Browser: Firefox 145

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 10 months ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

regex

4K/s

replaceAll

2K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ regex	3,878 Ops/sec
replaceAll	2,405 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

window.hugeString = "";

for (let i = 0; i < 10000; ++i) {
  window.hugeString += "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
}

Tests: