Run results for: how fast is regex?

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:151.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/151.0

Browser: Firefox 151

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 days ago

Test name	Executions per second
instantiate new regex	24176554.0 Ops/sec
use existing regex	25244578.0 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, "\\$&")