Run results for: RegEx.test vs. String.includes vs. String.match with multiple searches

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/26.2 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 26

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 7 months ago

RegEx.test

66.1M/s

String.includes

65.1M/s

String.match

37.9M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ RegEx.test	66,147,424 Ops/sec
String.includes	65,053,000 Ops/sec
String.match	37,931,960 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var string = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.";
var searches = ['ipsum', 'tempor', 'foobar', 'dolore', 'est']
var regex = new RegExp(searches.join("|"));

Tests:

RegEx.test
regex.test(string);
String.includes
for (const search of searches) { if (string.includes(search)) break; }
String.match
string.match(regex);