Run results for: Split vs Regex

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:66.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/66.0

Browser: Firefox 66

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Splitting	2922165.0 Ops/sec
Regex	113136300.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var testString = "testing\nNewlines\nBleh"

Tests:

Splitting
var values = testString.split("\n"); var value1 = values[0]; var value2 = values[1]; var value3 = values[2];
Regex
var regex = /.+((?=\n)|$)/g var value1 = regex[0]; var value2 = regex[1]; var value3 = regex[2];