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Run results for: Float string optimization: parseFloat() vs regex, full version

To get a cleaned-up float number with a limited number of digits of precision, which is faster: parsefloat() or a regular expression?

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Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Chrome 128
Windows
Desktop
7 months ago
Test name Executions per second
parseFloat() 1703416.9 Ops/sec
regex 3463378.8 Ops/sec
Tests:

  • parseFloat()

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    var string = parseFloat((3/2).toFixed(4)).toString();

  • regex

     
    var string = (3/2).toFixed(4).replace('^[+-]?([0-9]*[.])?[0-9]+$', '');