Run results for: regex vs indexOf

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.113 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 60

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.11.6

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 6 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
regex	2413.0 Ops/sec
indexOf	354963.1 Ops/sec

Tests:

regex
var result = 0; FILTERS = /\s*\|\s*([^\|\s:}]*)(?::((?:(?:[^\|\s,}]*),?)+))?\s*/g; var str = "{{value|filter:arg1,arg2|otherFilter}}"; for (var i=0; i < 1000; i++) { typeof str.match(FILTERS) !== null ? result += 1 : result += 0; }
indexOf
var result = 0; FILTERS = /\s*\|\s*([^\|\s:}]*)(?::((?:(?:[^\|\s,}]*),?)+))?\s*/g; var str = "{{value|filter:arg1,arg2|otherFilter}}"; for (var i=0; i < 1000; i++) { typeof str.indexOf('|') >= 0 ? result += 1 : result += 0; }