Run results for: Single vs multiple regex replace calls

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/93.0.4577.63 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 93

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Multiple, regex	4278745.5 Ops/sec
Single, regex	3276545.5 Ops/sec
Single, group regex	3276935.8 Ops/sec
No regex	3681782.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var str = "Et inventore ut est. Illum dolorem similique odit. Velit necessitatibus unde nostrum sequi ut pariatur suscipit sit magnam. Cum esse sed quod aut id. Recusandae vel commodi."

Tests:

Multiple, regex
str = str.replace(/a/g, '').replace(/e/g,'')
Single, regex
str = str.replace(/a|e/g, '')
Single, group regex
str = str.replace(/[ae]+/g, '')
No regex
str = str.replace('a', '').replace('e','')

Run results for: Single vs multiple regex replace calls

Multiple, regex

Single, regex

Single, group regex

No regex