Run results for: how fast is regex?

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:149.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/149.0

Browser: Firefox 149

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 6 days ago

Test name	Executions per second
instantiate new regex	19511010.0 Ops/sec
use existing regex	18424132.0 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, "\\$&")