Run results for: RegExp constructor vs literal

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/78.0.3904.97 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 78

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.12.6

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
new RegExp()	4919098.0 Ops/sec
Literal	3888019.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: