Run results for: str.match vs str.Split

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/100.0.4896.160 YaBrowser/22.5.4.904 Yowser/2.5 Safari/537.36

Browser: Yandex Browser 22

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
String.split	1890625.0 Ops/sec
Regex.match	471984.4 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