Benchmark: Regex vs includes

Script Preparation code:

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Tests:

Regexp
window.data.filter(x => /node_modules/.test(x));
String.includes
window.data.filter(x => x.includes('node_modules'));

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
Regexp
String.includes

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 28 days ago):

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 5 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3770.100 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 75 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
Regexp	56202.2 Ops/sec
String.includes	52915.6 Ops/sec

Related benchmarks:

Regex vs includes (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: Regexp vs String.includes

Created: 5 years ago by: Guest

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Regexp

String.includes

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 28 days ago):