Run results for: replaceAll vs regex replace

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:70.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/70.0

Browser: Firefox 70

Operating system: Fedora

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
replace regex	6866818.5 Ops/sec
replace All	1076835.4 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