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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.141 Safari/537.36 Edg/87.0.664.75

Browser: Chrome 87

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
regex inline split	594335.4 Ops/sec
regex precompiled split	479771.9 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: