Run results for: str.match vs str.Split

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:92.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/92.0

Browser: Firefox 92

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
String.split	2059158.0 Ops/sec
Regex.match	911650.7 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: