Run results for: Regex vs split/join

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 16_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) EdgiOS/105.0.1343.47 Version/16.0 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 16

Operating system: iOS 16.0

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Regex	64048.5 Ops/sec
Split and Join	329432.2 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 Join
str.split('').join('Z') + 'Z';

Run results for: Regex vs split/join

Regex

Split and Join