Run results for: Regex removing whitespace vs trim

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.0.3 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 13

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.13.6

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
regex	1568263.0 Ops/sec
trim	4832323.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var string = '    fsajdf asdfjosa fjoiawejf oawjfoei jaosdjfsdjfo sfjos 2324234 sdf safjao j o        sdlfks dflks l      '

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var string = '    fsajdf asdfjosa fjoiawejf oawjfoei jaosdjfsdjfo sfjos 2324234 sdf safjao j o        sdlfks dflks l      '

Tests:

regex
string.replace(/^\s+|\s+$|\s+(?=\s)/g, '')
string.replace(/^\s+|\s+$|\s+(?=\s)/g, '')
trim
string.trim()
string.trim()