Run results for: str.match vs str.Split

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 11; M2012K11AG) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.114 Mobile Safari/537.36 OPR/64.3.3282.60839

Browser: Opera Mobile 64

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
String.split	1731797.0 Ops/sec
Regex.match	614949.1 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