Run results for: Global matching regex with and without + char

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/57.0.2987.98 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 57

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 7 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
With +	327.1 Ops/sec
Without +	320.4 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var dummyString = 'aA%↓6aA%↓6aA%↓6aA%↓6aA%↓6aA%↓6aA%↓6';
var iterations  = 1500;

Tests:

With +
for (var i = 0; i < iterations; i++) { dummyString.replace(/[^a-z0-9]+/gi, ''); }
Without +
for (var i = 0; i < iterations; i++) { dummyString.replace(/[^a-z0-9]/gi, ''); }