Run results for: regex vs indexOf

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.67 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 87

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
regex	5746.3 Ops/sec
indexOf	2169067.0 Ops/sec

Tests:

regex
var result = 0; FILTERS = /\s*\|\s*([^\|\s:}]*)(?::((?:(?:[^\|\s,}]*),?)+))?\s*/g; var str = "{{value}}"; for (var i=0; i < 1000; i++) { typeof str.match(FILTERS) !== null ? result += 1 : result += 0; }
indexOf
var result = 0; FILTERS = /\s*\|\s*([^\|\s:}]*)(?::((?:(?:[^\|\s,}]*),?)+))?\s*/g; var str = "{{value}}"; for (var i=0; i < 1000; i++) { typeof str.indexOf('|') >= 0 ? result += 1 : result += 0; }