Run results for: how fast is regex?

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/143.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/143.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 143

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 8 months ago

use existing regex

16.5M/s

instantiate new regex

16.2M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ use existing regex	16,480,041 Ops/sec
instantiate new regex	16,200,670 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

const prepared = /[.*+?^${}()|[\]\\]/g;

Tests:

instantiate new regex
const blah = "whatever" const r = blah.replace(/[.*+?^${}()|[\]\\]/g, "\\$&")
use existing regex
const blah = "whatever" const r = blah.replace(prepared, "\\$&")