Run results for: str.match vs str.Split

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 14_8 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.1.2 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 14

Operating system: iOS 14.8

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
String.split	2265302.0 Ops/sec
Regex.match	1321291.0 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: