Run results for: str.match vs str.Split

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0

Browser: Firefox 91

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
String.split	3025104.0 Ops/sec
Regex.match	1387096.0 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: