Run results for: str.match vs str.split.pop

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/94.0.4606.81 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 94

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
str.match	742001.3 Ops/sec
str.split.pop	2643250.0 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: