Run results for: Regex removing whitespace vs trim

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 91

Operating system: Windows 7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
regex	716634.8 Ops/sec
trim	5968730.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: