Benchmarking regex against kernel string comparison

benchmark.rb

Setup the Benchmark

[1] pry(main)> require 'benchmark'
=> true
[2] pry(main)> test_string = "/foo/bar/bah/bing"
=> "/foo/bar/bah/bing"
String#starts_with?

[3] pry(main)> Benchmark.realtime { (1..10000).to_a.each { %r{^/foo}.match(test_string) } }
=> 0.009987447
[4] pry(main)> Benchmark.realtime { (1..10000).to_a.each { test_string.start_with?("foo") } }
=> 0.003103276
String#end_with?

[5] pry(main)> Benchmark.realtime { (1..10000).to_a.each { %r{bing$}.match(test_string) } }
=> 0.015837275
[6] pry(main)> Benchmark.realtime { (1..10000).to_a.each { test_string.end_with?("bing") } }
=> 0.005633547
String#include?

[7] pry(main)> Benchmark.realtime { (1..10000).to_a.each { %r{^.*bar.*$}.match(test_string) } }
=> 0.025630178
[8] pry(main)> Benchmark.realtime { (1..10000).to_a.each { test_string.include?("bar") } }
=> 0.010360719