Run results for: replaceAll vs regex replace

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 11_2_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.82 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 89

Operating system: Mac OS X 11.2.3

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
replace regex	6305740.5 Ops/sec
replace All	1912310.6 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

String.prototype.replaceAll = function(search, replacement) {
    var target = this;
    return target.replace(new RegExp(search, 'g'), replacement);
};

Tests:

replace regex
"this is it".replace(/ /g, "+");
replace All
"this is it".replaceAll(" ", "+");

Run results for: replaceAll vs regex replace

replace regex

replace All