Run results for: str.match vs str.Split

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:92.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/92.0

Browser: Firefox 92

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
String.split	2422466.0 Ops/sec
Regex.match	1147631.0 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: