Run results for: Regex removing whitespace vs trim

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 13505.63.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.88 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 87

Operating system: Chrome OS 13505.63.0

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
regex	2004660.0 Ops/sec
trim	11423330.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var string = '    fsajdf asdfjosa fjoiawejf oawjfoei jaosdjfsdjfo sfjos 2324234 sdf safjao j o        sdlfks dflks l      '

Tests: