Run results for: Regex removing whitespace vs trim

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:88.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/88.0

Browser: Firefox 88

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
regex	1787918.9 Ops/sec
trim	17272502.0 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()