Run results for: String compare case insensitive: Regex.test() Vs toLowerCase() Vs localeCompare()

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/147.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/147.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 147

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 months ago

Regex.test()

54.7M/s

toLowerCase()

52.7M/s

localeCompare()

182K/s

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Script Preparation code:

var value = "hello"
var variable = "heLLo";
var regExp = new RegExp(value,'i');

Tests:

Regex.test()
regExp.test(variable);
toLowerCase()
value===variable.toLowerCase()
localeCompare()
value.localeCompare( variable, undefined, { sensitivity: "base" })