Run results for: Regex vs split/join

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 12_5_5 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/12.1.2 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 12

Operating system: iOS 12.5.5

Device Platform: Tablet

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Regex	14658.5 Ops/sec
Split and Join	75005.6 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