Run results for: RegExp constructor vs literal

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.1.2 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 13

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.14.6

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
new RegExp()	8216319.0 Ops/sec
Literal	8714289.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: