Run results for: Regex testing for whitespace vs trim

Run details:

User agent: 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

Browser: Safari 14

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
regex	5428990.5 Ops/sec
trim	9261513.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var string = '  	 	 	 ';
var regPattern = new RegExp(/\A\s*\z/g);

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var string = '               ';var regPattern = new RegExp(/\A\s*\z/g);

Tests: