Run results for: str.match vs str.Split

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 15_2_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/15E148 LightSpeed [FBAN/MessengerLiteForiOS;FBAV/345.0.0.16.112;FBBV/346124262;FBDV/iPhone14,2;FBMD/iPhone;FBSN/iOS;FBSV/15.2.1;FBSS/3;FBCR/;FBID/phone;FBLC/pl;FBOP/0]

Browser: Mobile Safari 15

Operating system: iOS 15.2.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
String.split	3200914.0 Ops/sec
Regex.match	1985343.0 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:

String.split
string.split(" ")
Regex.match
string.match(regex)

Run results for: str.match vs str.Split

Test String.match with regex against String.split with string. We are splitting a string at the spaces.

String.split

Regex.match