Run results for: replaceAll vs regex replace tabs to spaces

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:95.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/95.0

Browser: Firefox 95

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
replace regex	24595440.0 Ops/sec
replace All	4884761.0 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(/\t/g, ' ');
replace All
"this is it".replaceAll("\t", " ");

Run results for: replaceAll vs regex replace tabs to spaces

replace regex

replace All