Run results for: .test vs .exec vs .match

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 16_5_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.5.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 16

Operating system: iOS 16.5.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
re.test(str)	395112288.0 Ops/sec
re.exec(str)	105232208.0 Ops/sec
str.match(re)	32251048.0 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);

Run results for: .test vs .exec vs .match

Simple regexs benchmarks

re.test(str)

re.exec(str)

str.match(re)