Run results for: RegExp constructor vs literal

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 YaBrowser/23.7.0.2610 Yowser/2.5 Safari/537.36

Browser: Yandex Browser 23

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 7 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
new RegExp()	6745555.0 Ops/sec
Literal	6832204.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests:

new RegExp()
reConstructor.test('132abc67219f019afe12901a')
Literal
reLiteral.test('132abc67219f019afe12901a')

Run results for: RegExp constructor vs literal

Testing performance when using a new RegExp object vs a literal regex

new RegExp()

Literal