Run results for: str.match vs str.Split

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.3 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 15

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.6

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
String.split	2594334.0 Ops/sec
Regex.match	1641397.0 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: