Run results for: RegEx.exec vs String.match2

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/114.0.1823.67

Browser: Chrome 114

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
regex.exec	2262082.8 Ops/sec
string.match	2217519.2 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var string = 'beepope<a href="http://DevNode/Lists/Publications.aspx#/publication/123">sdfsdfsf</a>';
var regex = /<a\s+href=(["'])(.*?)\1[^>]*?>(.*?)<\/a>/;

Tests:

regex.exec
regex.exec(string);
string.match
string.match(regex);

Run results for: RegEx.exec vs String.match2

regex.exec

string.match