Run results for: str.match vs str.Split

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 11_2_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/88.0.4324.150 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 88

Operating system: Mac OS X 11.2.0

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
String.split	2521754.0 Ops/sec
Regex.match	693305.3 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: