Run results for: str.match vs str.Split

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:84.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/84.0

Browser: Firefox 84

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.14

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
String.split	2394728.0 Ops/sec
Regex.match	1080531.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

string = "This is a benchmark to test if matching a regex is faster that splitting a string";
regex = /\S+/gi;

Tests: