Run results for: String.replace vs String.slice

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3770.100 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 75

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.14.2

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
String.replace	8070906.0 Ops/sec
String.slice	112949900.0 Ops/sec

Tests:

String.replace
'2xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'.replace('2', '');
String.slice
'2xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'.slice(1);