Run results for: .split(" ") vs .split(/\s+/)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/106.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 106

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Str.split	6835437.0 Ops/sec
str.split regex	1202034.0 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:

Str.split
str.split(" ")
str.split regex
str.split(/\s+/)

Run results for: .split(" ") vs .split(/\s+/)

Str.split

str.split regex