Run results for: Regex vs Split and pop

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:104.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/104.0

Browser: Firefox 104

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Regex	73803.3 Ops/sec
Split and pop	774018.1 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var str = 'Abcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxy Abcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxy Abcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxyAbcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxy Abcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxy Abcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxy';

Tests:

Regex
str.replace(/./g, "$&Z");
Split and pop
str.split('').pop('Z') + 'Z';