Run results for: str.match vs str.Split

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 8.0.0; FIG-LX1 Build/HUAWEIFIG-LX1; rv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Rocket/2.1.17(19420) Chrome/109.0.5414.118 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 109

Operating system: Android 8.0.0

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 9 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
String.split	546111.6 Ops/sec
Regex.match	151565.2 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