Run results for: how fast is regex?

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/148.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/148.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 148

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one month ago

use existing regex

7.2M/s

instantiate new regex

7.1M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ use existing regex	7,170,684 Ops/sec
instantiate new regex	7,128,070 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, "\\$&")