Run results for: Regex removing whitespace vs trim

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/102.0.5005.62 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 102

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
regex	1930579.0 Ops/sec
trim	9375260.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: