Run results for: RegEx.test vs String.search

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.3 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 16

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
RegEx.test()	18818400.0 Ops/sec
String.search()	17600110.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var REGEX = /abcdef/

Tests: