Run results for: Regex removing whitespace vs trim

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.1.2 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 14

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.14.6

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
regex	2728598.0 Ops/sec
trim	8518810.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: