Run results for: RegExp constructor vs literal

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; ) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4017.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/81.0.389.2

Browser: Chrome 81

Operating system: Windows 7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
new RegExp()	461886.1 Ops/sec
Literal	480068.8 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: