Run results for: RegExp constructor vs literal

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.1 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 16

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 8 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
new RegExp()	9196151.0 Ops/sec
Literal	9609163.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var reConstructor = new RegExp('^[0-9a-fA-F]{24}$')
var reLiteral = /^[0-9a-fA-F]{24}$/

Tests: