Run results for: str.match vs str.Split and for each 2

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/117.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 117

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
regex	2964920.0 Ops/sec
split and for each	90476.3 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

str = "This is a benchmark to test if matching a regex is faster that splitting a string";
regex = /[0-9]/;
specialCharsList = "!@#$%^&*".split("");

Tests:

regex
regex.test(str)
split and for each
str.split("").forEach(char => { if (specialCharsList.includes(char)) { } });

Run results for: str.match vs str.Split and for each 2

regex

split and for each