Run results for: RegExp constructor vs literal

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:88.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/88.0

Browser: Firefox 88

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
new RegExp()	16538600.0 Ops/sec
Literal	16406759.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var reConstructor = new RegExp('^[0-9a-fA-F]{24}$')
var reLiteral = /^[0-9a-fA-F]{24}$/

Tests: