Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.1.2 Safari/605.1.15
Safari 14
Mac OS X 10.15.7
Desktop
3 years ago
Test name Executions per second
String.split 1285681.6 Ops/sec
Regex.match 786681.4 Ops/sec
Script Preparation code:
AخA
 
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)