Run results for: .test vs .exec vs .match - MeasureThat.net

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.93 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 90

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
re.test(str)	23795926.0 Ops/sec
re.exec(str)	15129993.0 Ops/sec
str.match(re)	13582406.0 Ops/sec

Tests:

re.test(str)
var re = /[$£]/ var match = re.test("$");
re.exec(str)
var re = /[$£]/ var match = re.exec("$");
str.match(re)
var re = /[$£]/ var match = "$".match(re);

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