Run results for: RegExp constructor vs literal

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:80.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/80.0

Browser: Firefox 80

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
new RegExp()	7809923.0 Ops/sec
Literal	7710057.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var reConstructor = new RegExp('^[0-9a-fA-F]{24}$')
var reLiteral = /^[0-9a-fA-F]{24}$/

Tests: