Benchmark: str.match vs str.split.pop

Script Preparation code:

string = "This is a benchmark to test if matching a regex is faster that splitting a string";
regex = /\S+/gi;

Tests:

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Previous results

Test case name	Result
str.match
str.split.pop

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Latest run results:

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

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/97.0.4692.99 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 97 on Mac OS X 10.15.7

Test name	Executions per second
str.match	962207.6 Ops/sec
str.split.pop	3972528.0 Ops/sec

str.match vs str.split.pop (version: 0)