Run results for: match vs exec with many matches

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:93.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/93.0

Browser: Firefox 93

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
RegExp#exec with `while` loop	44269.6 Ops/sec
String#match	79176.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var str = "$".repeat(300);
var re = /[$]/g;

Tests:

RegExp#exec with `while` loop
const matches = []; let execResult = []; do { execResult = re.exec(str); if (!execResult) break; matches.push(execResult[0]); } while (true);
String#match
const matches = str.match(re);