Run results for: regex replace with and without for (long text)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/110.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 110

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
replace with for	9.4 Ops/sec
replace without for	13.1 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var sentence = "Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.";
var wordList = sentence.split(' ');

var longText = "Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry."

for (let i = 0; i < 10; i += 1) {
  longText = longText + " " + longText
}

Tests:

replace with for
for (let i = 0; i < wordList.length; i += 1) { var re = new RegExp("(" + wordList[i] + ")", "gi"); longText = longText.replace( re, '<span>$1</span>' ); }
replace without for
var re = new RegExp("(" + wordList.join('|') + ")", "gi"); longText = longText.replace( re, '<span>$1</span>' );

Run results for: regex replace with and without for (long text)

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