Run results for: split-join vs regex replace

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko

Browser: IE 11

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
replace regex	11404180.0 Ops/sec
split-join	3940693.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

String.prototype.replaceAll = function(search, replacement) {
    var target = this;
    return target.replace(new RegExp(search, 'g'), replacement);
};

Tests:

replace regex
"this is it".replace(/ /g, "+");
split-join
"this is it".split(" ").join("+");

Run results for: split-join vs regex replace

replace regex

split-join