Run results for: Regex removing whitespace vs trim

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:89.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/89.0

Browser: Firefox 89

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
regex	1979370.0 Ops/sec
trim	20356830.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: