Run results for: Regex testing for whitespace vs trim

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/99.0.4844.84 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 99

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
regex	4785376.0 Ops/sec
trim	8557314.0 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: