Benchmark: RegEx.exec vs String.match

Script Preparation code:

var string = "Hello world!";
var regex = /[A-Z][a-z]+ [a-z]+/;

Tests:

regex.exec
regex.exec(string);
string.match
string.match(regex);

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
regex.exec
string.match

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 11 hours ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_5 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/124.0.6367.71 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser/OS: Chrome Mobile iOS 124 on iOS 17.5

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Test name	Executions per second
regex.exec	7026698.0 Ops/sec
string.match	6934379.0 Ops/sec

RegEx.exec vs String.match (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: regex.exec vs string.match

Created: 3 years ago by: Guest

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regex.exec

string.match

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A