Benchmark: includes + toLowerCase vs RegExp + i

Script Preparation code:

var str = "This is a simple test!";
var needle = "sImPle";

Tests:

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Previous results

Test case name	Result
lowercase + includes
RegExp + i

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 8 days ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 14541.0.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 123 on Chrome OS 14541.0.0

Test name	Executions per second
lowercase + includes	2106401.0 Ops/sec
RegExp + i	810585.0 Ops/sec

includes + toLowerCase vs RegExp + i (version: 0)