Run results for: regex vs equal

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2840.99 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 54

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 7 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
re	7616113.0 Ops/sec
eq	84838750.0 Ops/sec

Tests:

re
var re = /[$£]/ var match = re.exec("$");
eq
var dollars = '$'; var pounds = '£'; var val = '$' var match = val === dollars || val === pounds;