Run results for: string.split(" ") once / twice benchmark

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:126.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/126.0

Browser: Firefox 126

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
string.split(" ")	150886.2 Ops/sec
string.split(" ") x2	127154.3 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var string = 'I\'ve had to optimize a lot of string munging while working on MXHR and in my experience, plain String methods are significantly faster than RegExps in current browsers. Use RegExps on the shortest Strings possible and do everything you possibly can with String methods.'

Tests:

string.split(" ")
var a = string.split(" ") console.log(a) console.log(a)
string.split(" ") x2
console.log(string.split(" ")) console.log(string.split(" "))

Run results for: string.split(" ") once / twice benchmark

string.split(" ")

string.split(" ") x2