Run results for: RegExp: negative vs lazy (non-greedy)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 118

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 6 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
Negative	464208.2 Ops/sec
Lazy (non-greedy)	456363.1 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

/* André Antunes da Cunha - hello world! */
var negative = /<[^>]*>/g;
var lazy = /<.*?>/g;
var input =
    "hello <01> hello <02> hello <03> hello <04> hello <05> hello <06> hello <07> hello <08> hello <09> hello <10> " +
    "hello <11> hello <12> hello <13> hello <14> hello <15> hello <16> hello <17> hello <18> hello <19> hello <20> " +
    "hello";

Tests:

Negative
[...input.matchAll(negative)]; /* Array.from(input.matchAll(negative)); */
Lazy (non-greedy)
[...input.matchAll(lazy)]; /* Array.from(input.matchAll(lazy)); */

Run results for: RegExp: negative vs lazy (non-greedy)

Negative

Lazy (non-greedy)