Run results for: regex vs substring compare

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/119.0

Browser: Firefox 119

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
regex	13541930.0 Ops/sec
substring	142554200.0 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'){}