Run results for: str.match vs str.Split

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.1 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 17

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
String.split	7151791.0 Ops/sec
Regex.match	1228882.0 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: