Run results for: Regex testing for whitespace vs trim

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/88.0.4324.182 Safari/537.36 Edg/88.0.705.81

Browser: Chrome 88

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
regex	4777647.5 Ops/sec
trim	8079537.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var string = '  	 	 	 ';
var regPattern = new RegExp(/\A\s*\z/g);

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var string = '               ';var regPattern = new RegExp(/\A\s*\z/g);

Tests: