Run results for: Split vs Regex, two terms, space separated, permissive regex

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/111.0

Browser: Firefox 111

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
Splitting	8865901.0 Ops/sec
Regex	167152300.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var testString = "twoSpace separatedTerms"

Tests:

Splitting
var values = testString.split(" "); var value1 = values[0]; var value2 = values[1];
Regex
var regex = /^(.+) (.+)$/ var value1 = regex[1]; var value2 = regex[2];