Run results for: match vs split multiple test string

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:146.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/146.0

Browser: Firefox 146

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 8 months ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

split

8.3M/s

match

7.9M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ split	8,294,775 Ops/sec
match	7,863,506 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

string = "This benchmark is to {{teststring}} ask the ageold question, will it fast? We are s{{teststring}}plitting a string at spaces with two methods.";

Tests:

match
const count = (string.match(/{{teststring}}/g) || []).length
split
const count = string.split("{{teststring}}").length - 1;