Benchmark: RegExp constructor vs literal, constructing in function

Script Preparation code:

function getReConstructor() {
  return new RegExp('^[0-9a-fA-F]{24}$');
}
function getReLiteral() {
  return /^[0-9a-fA-F]{24}$/;
}

Tests:

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Previous results

Test case name	Result
new RegExp()
Literal

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 4 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3770.80 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 75 on Linux

Test name	Executions per second
new RegExp()	2153386.0 Ops/sec
Literal	5378140.0 Ops/sec

RegExp constructor vs literal, constructing in function (version: 0)