Run results for: str.match vs str.Split

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:90.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/90.0

Browser: Firefox 90

Operating system: Windows 7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
String.split	701268.9 Ops/sec
Regex.match	256438.8 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: