Run results for: Regex removing whitespace vs trim

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 8.0.0; SM-G935F Build/R16NW; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/103.0.5060.129 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 103

Operating system: Android 8.0.0

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
regex	793008.9 Ops/sec
trim	2878235.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests:

regex
string.replace(/^\s+|\s+$|\s+(?=\s)/g, '')
trim
string.trim()

Run results for: Regex removing whitespace vs trim

testing removing beginning and end whitespace vs trim

regex

trim