Run results for: Regex removing whitespace vs trim

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 12; Pixel 3 XL) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/107.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 107

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
regex	935036.5 Ops/sec
trim	4027286.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: