Run results for: str.match vs str.Split

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 11; 220233L2I Build/RP1A.200720.011) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/97.0.4692.98 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 97

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
String.split	449157.8 Ops/sec
Regex.match	137949.6 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:

String.split
string.split(" ")
Regex.match
string.match(regex)

Run results for: str.match vs str.Split

Test String.match with regex against String.split with string. We are splitting a string at the spaces.

String.split

Regex.match