Run results for: str.match vs str.Split

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 10; Mobile; rv:85.0) Gecko/85.0 Firefox/85.0

Browser: Firefox Mobile 85

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
String.split	1842616.0 Ops/sec
Regex.match	766716.5 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: