Does V8 cache compiled regular expressions automatically?

Question

So I know that in Javascript instantiating a regex causes it to be compiled automatically and if that regex is stored in a variable it will be reused without recompiling. Ex

Answer 1

http://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=933#c3

In Chrome 9 we have removed a primitive caching of RegExp results. That means that we no longer take unrealistically low time for repeating the same operation on the same input over and over again. The caching was originally added to make a point about benchmarks that were too simplistic (our own, at that time, included) being too easy to "game" by adding such caching (which makes no difference in real-world scenarios). Most benchmarks have since improved so much that we decided to remove the caching (and its unavoidable overhead). The cache was added in v8 revision 4083 (released in Chrome 5) and removed in revision 5755 (will be in Chrome 9)

Answer 2

Well, let's find out.

// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3466850/complex-password-regular-expression
function isFooBar(str) {
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}
console.time('1');isFooBar("Foo");console.timeEnd('1');
console.time('2');isFooBar("Bar");console.timeEnd('2');

(Open your console and run the code snippet above to see if the results for your browser.)

On Node.js 0.10.36 (V8 3.14.5.9):

1: 65ms
2: 0ms

On io.js 1.6.3 (V8 4.1.0.27):

1: 32ms
2: 0ms

So, I guess the answer to your question is YES, V8 is capable of automatically caching the regex.

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EDIT:

Even though V8 is capable of such optimization, it might not in fact choose to always use this optimization. V8 has many complex heuristics for different cases, like when to inline a function, when to optimize a function, when to de-optimize a function, etc. Unless you are a V8 developer, many of these heuristics would appear to be bizarre or unexpected or both.

Not being a V8 developer myself, I do not know the answer to the specific question or if regexes are always automatically cached. However, even if I do know the answer, it may change in the future. So when you are writing code, I would still recommend storing the regex in such a way that it is clear what the intention for this variable is. And for the example above, this means lifting the regex variable out of the function isFooBar().

Another issue is how this regex is created. The example above and in OP's question are declared with a regular expression literal. However, if you are using the new RegExp() constructor, V8 would not be allowed to cache the regex since it might change during runtime.