Benchmark Run Result for: str.match vs str.Split

str.match vs str.Split

Test String.match with regex against String.split with string. We are splitting a string at the spaces.

Date tested: 3 months ago

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Test name	Executions per second
String.split	4378047.0 Ops/sec
Regex.match	839289.1 Ops/sec

Benchmark definition (click to collapse):

Script Preparation code:

string = "This is a benchmark to test if matching a regex is faster that splitting a string";
regex = /\S+/gi;

Tests:

String.split
string.split(" ")
Regex.match
string.match(regex)

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