Run results for: regex vs substring compare

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 15_6_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.6 Mobile/15E148 DuckDuckGo/7 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Mobile Safari 15

Operating system: iOS 15.6.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
regex	5425954.0 Ops/sec
substring	14643870.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

const link = "https://stats.nba.com";
const linkRegex = new RegExp(/^(http|www)/i);

Tests:

regex
const link = "https://stats.nba.com"; const linkRegex = new RegExp(/^(http|www)/i); if(link.match(linkRegex) !== null){}
substring
const link = "https://stats.nba.com"; const start = link.substring(0,3); if(start === 'htt' || start === 'www'){}