Run results for: Regex testing for whitespace vs trim

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/85.0.4183.83 Safari/537.36 Edg/85.0.564.44

Browser: Chrome 85

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.6

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
regex	5506803.0 Ops/sec
trim	11570496.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var string = '  	 	 	 ';
var regPattern = new RegExp(/\A\s*\z/g);

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var string = '               ';var regPattern = new RegExp(/\A\s*\z/g);

Tests: