Run results for: str.match vs str.split.pop

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.212 Safari/537.36 OPR/76.0.4017.177

Browser: Opera 76

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
str.match	75337.6 Ops/sec
str.split.pop	186557.4 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: