Run results for: RegExp constructor vs literal

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/86.0.4240.111 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 86

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.14.5

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
new RegExp()	7497260.0 Ops/sec
Literal	7299310.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: