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

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Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/84.0.4147.135 Safari/537.36
Chrome 84
Mac OS X 10.15.5
Desktop
4 years ago
Test name Executions per second
Regular Expression Literal: 3554038.8 Ops/sec
split and join 2090916.0 Ops/sec
Regular Expression: 1929565.2 Ops/sec
while replace 8713717.0 Ops/sec
Script Preparation code:
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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");
    }