Benchmark: regex vs equal - MeasureThat.net

Tests:

re
var re = /[$£]/ var match = re.exec("$");
eq
var dollars = '$'; var pounds = '£'; var val = '$' var match = val === dollars || val === pounds;

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Previous results

Test case name	Result
re
eq

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 5 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/66.0.3359.181 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 66 on Mac OS X 10.13.4

Test name	Executions per second
re	8733418.0 Ops/sec
eq	719654500.0 Ops/sec

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