Run results for: replaceAll vs regex replace

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:58.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/58.0

Browser: Firefox 58

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 2025 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
replace regex	4495898.5 Ops/sec
replace All	1038512.7 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

String.prototype.replaceAll = function(search, replacement) {
    var target = this;
    return target.replace(new RegExp(search, 'g'), replacement);
};

Tests:

replace regex
"this is it".replace(/ /g, "+");
replace All
"this is it".replaceAll(" ", "+");

Run results for: replaceAll vs regex replace

replace regex

replace All