Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/134.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Chrome 134
Mac OS X 10.15.7
Desktop
one month ago
Test name Executions per second
instantiate new regex 14216197.0 Ops/sec
use existing regex 14425974.0 Ops/sec
just make a regex 152287104.0 Ops/sec
just make a string 168933248.0 Ops/sec
Script Preparation code:
AخA
 
const prepared = /[.*+?^${}()|[\]\\]/g;
Tests:
  • instantiate new regex

     
    const blah = "whatever"
    const r = blah.replace(/[.*+?^${}()|[\]\\]/g, "\\$&")
  • use existing regex

     
    const blah = "whatever"
    const r = blah.replace(prepared, "\\$&")
  • just make a regex

     
    const newOne = /[.*+?^${}()|[\]\\]/g;
  • just make a string

     
    const blah = "foo"