Benchmark: parse date - MeasureThat.net

Script Preparation code:

var REGEX = /(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})(T(\d{2}):(\d{2})(:(\d{2}))?)?/;

function withRegex(str) {
	var match = str.match(REGEX);
	if (match) {
    	return new Date(match[1], match[2], match[3], match[5], match[6], match[8]);
    }
	return null;
}

function withSubstr(str) {
  var year = parseInt(str.substr(0, 4), 10),
			month = parseInt(str.substr(5, 2), 10) - 1,
			day = parseInt(str.substr(8, 2), 10),
			hour = 0, minute = 0, second = 0;

		if (str.indexOf('T') > -1) {
			hour = parseInt(str.substr(11, 2), 10),
			minute = parseInt(str.substr(14, 2), 10),
			second = parseInt(str.substr(17, 2), 10);
		}

		return new Date(year, month, day, hour, minute, second);
}

Tests:

Regex
for (var i=0; i<100; ++i) { withRegex('1991-11-26T12:00:00'); withRegex('1991-11-26'); }
Substr
for (var i=0; i<100; ++i) { withSubstr('1991-11-26T12:00:00'); withSubstr('1991-11-26'); }

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
Regex
Substr

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 7 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2840.59 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 54 on Linux

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Test name	Executions per second
Regex	6683.7 Ops/sec
Substr	3400.3 Ops/sec

parse date (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: Regex vs Substr

Created: 7 years ago by: Guest

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Regex

Substr

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A