Run results for: str.match vs str.Split

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 14_7 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/92.0.4515.90 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Chrome Mobile iOS 92

Operating system: iOS 14.7

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
String.split	1463802.0 Ops/sec
Regex.match	897282.3 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:

String.split
string.split(" ")
Regex.match
string.match(regex)

Run results for: str.match vs str.Split

Test String.match with regex against String.split with string. We are splitting a string at the spaces.

String.split

Regex.match