Run results for: Performance of replace() vs slice() vs split

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/103.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 103

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
replace inline regex	243492.2 Ops/sec
replace compiled regex var	254537.9 Ops/sec
indexOf slice+1	2603309.8 Ops/sec
indexOf slice+1 and redundant replace	2242192.2 Ops/sec
split index	2431291.2 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var strIn = 'data:video/mp4;base64,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';
var strOut = '';
var regex = /^data:.*,/;

Tests:

replace inline regex
strOut = strIn.replace(/^data:.*,/, ''); return strOut;
replace compiled regex var
strOut = strIn.replace(regex, ''); return strOut;
indexOf slice+1
let pictureIndex = strIn.indexOf(","); let picture_slice = strIn.slice(pictureIndex + 1); strOut = picture_slice; return strOut;
indexOf slice+1 and redundant replace
let pictureIndex = strIn.indexOf(","); let picture_slice = strIn.slice(pictureIndex + 1); let picture = picture_slice.replace(/^data:.*,/, ""); strOut = picture; return strOut;
split index
let pictureIndex = strIn.split(","); let picture_slice = pictureIndex[1] strOut = picture_slice; return strOut;

Run results for: Performance of replace() vs slice() vs split

Test the performance of replace() vs slice() vs split when replacing a string

replace inline regex

replace compiled regex var

indexOf slice+1

indexOf slice+1 and redundant replace

split index