Run results for: RegExp constructor vs literal

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:147.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/147.0

Browser: Firefox 147

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 6 months ago

Literal

10.8M/s

new RegExp()

10.3M/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ Literal	10,762,221 Ops/sec
new RegExp()	10,342,833 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var reConstructor = new RegExp('^[0-9a-fA-F]{24}$')
var reLiteral = /^[0-9a-fA-F]{24}$/

Tests: