Run results for: Split strings by character count

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 121

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 9 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
Testing Regex, Length 1	112.6 Ops/sec
Testing Regex, Length 10	628.7 Ops/sec
Testing Regex, Length 100	1774.2 Ops/sec
Testing Regex, Length 9 kB	2232.3 Ops/sec
Testing Slice, Length 1	54.5 Ops/sec
Testing Slice, Length 10	465.4 Ops/sec
Testing Slice, Length 100	4541.1 Ops/sec
Testing Slice, Length 9 kB	479225.9 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var cnt = 500 * 1024;
var str = []
for(var i=0; i < cnt; i++) {
  str.push( String.fromCharCode(Math.random() * 94 + 32) );
}
str = str.join("");

var regex = function(count) {
  var rgx = new RegExp("[\\s\\S]{1," + count + "}", "g");
  var parts = str.match(rgx);
};

var slice = function(count) {
  var parts = [];
  for(var i = 0, len = str.length; i < len; i += count) {
    parts.push( str.slice(i, i + count) );
  }
};

Tests:

Testing Regex, Length 1
regex(1);
Testing Regex, Length 10
regex(10);
Testing Regex, Length 100
regex(100);
Testing Regex, Length 9 kB
regex(9 * 1024);
Testing Slice, Length 1
slice(1);
Testing Slice, Length 10
slice(10);
Testing Slice, Length 100
slice(100);
Testing Slice, Length 9 kB
slice(9 * 1024);

Run results for: Split strings by character count

Testing Regex, Length 1

Testing Regex, Length 10

Testing Regex, Length 100

Testing Regex, Length 9 kB

Testing Slice, Length 1

Testing Slice, Length 10

Testing Slice, Length 100

Testing Slice, Length 9 kB