Run results for: RegExp constructor vs literal

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) QtWebEngine/5.15.2 Chrome/87.0.4280.144 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 87

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
new RegExp()	6515700.0 Ops/sec
Literal	6447677.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: