Run results for: precompiled regexp vs inline (string split)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:84.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/84.0

Browser: Firefox 84

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
regex inline split	487771.8 Ops/sec
regex precompiled split	493385.2 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

teststr = 'abc def 123 "moo moo" cow foo 2:1 1x test bar';
rex = /\s+|(!?".+?)"/

Tests: