Run results for: str.match vs str.Split

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 12; 22041211AC Build/SP1A.210812.016; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/86.0.4240.99 XWEB/3171 MMWEBSDK/20211202 Mobile Safari/537.36 MMWEBID/3406 MicroMessenger/8.0.18.2062(0x28001241) Process/toolsmp WeChat/arm64 Weixin GPVersion/1 NetType/5G Language/en ABI/arm64

Browser: Chrome 86

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
String.split	2107311.0 Ops/sec
Regex.match	851231.9 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

string = "This is a benchmark to test if matching a regex is faster that splitting a string";
regex = /\S+/gi;

Tests:

String.split
string.split(" ")
Regex.match
string.match(regex)

Run results for: str.match vs str.Split

Test String.match with regex against String.split with string. We are splitting a string at the spaces.

String.split

Regex.match