Run results for: compare string replace all RegExp and split + join and replace

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/84.0.4147.125 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 84

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Script Preparation code:

var str = "Test abc test test abc test test test abc test test abc"

Tests:

Regular Expression Literal:
str = str.replace(/abc/g, "replaced text");
split and join
str = str.split("abc").join("replaced text");
Regular Expression:
str = str.replace(new RegExp("abc", "g"), "replaced text");
while replace includes
while(str.includes("abc")){ str = str.replace("abc", "replaced text"); }
while replace indexOf
while(str.indexOf("abc") !== -1){ str = str.replace("abc", "replaced text"); }