Benchmark: RegEx.test vs. String.includes vs. String.match (case insensitive)

Script Preparation code:

var string = "Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an Unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.";
var regex = /unknown/i;

Tests:

RegEx.test
regex.test(string);
String.includes
string.toLowerCase().includes("unknown");
String.match
string.match(regex);

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
RegEx.test
String.includes
String.match

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 2 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 15_3_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.3 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser/OS: Mobile Safari 15 on iOS 15.3.1

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Test name	Executions per second
RegEx.test	5121862.0 Ops/sec
String.includes	1852010.0 Ops/sec
String.match	4195293.0 Ops/sec

RegEx.test vs. String.includes vs. String.match (case insensitive) (version: 1)

Comparing performance of: RegEx.test vs String.includes vs String.match (case insensitive)

Comparing performance of: RegEx.test vs String.includes vs String.match

Created: 2 years ago by: Registered User

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RegEx.test

String.includes

String.match

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A