Run results for: str.match vs str.Split

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.77 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 91

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
String.split	3382632.0 Ops/sec
Regex.match	922270.6 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: