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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/101.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 101

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
re.test(str)	40260312.0 Ops/sec
re.exec(str)	24379312.0 Ops/sec
str.match(re)	22761908.0 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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