Run results for: RegExp constructor vs literal

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/57.0.2987.98 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 57

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 6 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
new RegExp()	5050771.0 Ops/sec
Literal	5038321.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: