Run results for: how fast is regex?

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:147.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/147.0

Browser: Firefox 147

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
instantiate new regex	42289848.0 Ops/sec
use existing regex	44010032.0 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, "\\$&")