Run results for: RegExp constructor vs literal

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/86.0.4240.111 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 86

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.6

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
new RegExp()	7420219.0 Ops/sec
Literal	6869162.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: