Run results for: Regex vs split/join

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 11; M2007J20CG) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/101.0.4951.61 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 101

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Regex	47151.8 Ops/sec
Split and Join	94372.2 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var str = 'Abcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxy Abcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxy Abcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxyAbcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxy Abcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxy Abcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxy';

Tests:

Regex
str.replace(/./g, "$&Z");
Split and Join
str.split('').join('Z') + 'Z';

Run results for: Regex vs split/join

Regex

Split and Join