Run results for: Regex vs split/join on replacing empty spaces

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.116 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 83

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
regex	401116.6 Ops/sec
replace	521983.8 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var str = 'Abcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxy Abcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxy Abcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxyAbcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxy Abcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxy Abcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxy';

Tests:

regex
str.replace(/\s+/g, '');
replace
str.split(' ').join('');

Run results for: Regex vs split/join on replacing empty spaces

regex

replace