Run results for: Regex vs split/join

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0

Browser: Firefox 62

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 6 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Regex	22715.9 Ops/sec
Split and Join	108218456.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var str = 'Abcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxy Abcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxy Abcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxyAbcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxy Abcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxy Abcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxy';

Tests:

Regex
str.replace(/./g, "$&Z");
Split and Join
str.split('').join('Z') + 'Z';

Run results for: Regex vs split/join

Regex

Split and Join