Run results for: how fast is regex?

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:146.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/146.0

Browser: Firefox 146

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 7 months ago

use existing regex

49.7M/s

instantiate new regex

48.1M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ use existing regex	49,681,572 Ops/sec
instantiate new regex	48,090,376 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, "\\$&")