Run results for: regex vs substring compare

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	3767003.0 Ops/sec
substring	66508700.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

const link = "https://stats.nba.com";
const linkRegex = new RegExp(/^(http|www)/i);

Tests:

regex
const link = "https://stats.nba.com"; const linkRegex = new RegExp(/^(http|www)/i); if(link.match(linkRegex) !== null){}
substring
const link = "https://stats.nba.com"; const start = link.substring(0,3); if(start === 'htt' || start === 'www'){}