Benchmark: React useCallback hook vs. function vs. external

HTML Preparation code:

<!doctype html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>This is the title of the webpage!</title>
  </head>
  <body>
  	<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/16.13.1/umd/react.production.min.js"></script>
	<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react-dom/16.13.1/umd/react-dom.production.min.js"></script>
	<div id="root"></div> 
  </body>
</html>

Script Preparation code:

function ComponentWithOuterFunctionUseCallback() {
  function functionToTest(evt) {
	evt.preventDefault();
  }
  const testFunction = React.useCallback(functionToTest, []);
  return React.createElement('button', {onClick: testFunction}, 'Test click');
}

function ComponentWithUseCallback() {
  const testFunction = React.useCallback(evt => evt.preventDefault(), []);
  return React.createElement('button', {onClick: testFunction}, 'Test click');
}

function ComponentWithInlineFunction() {
  function testFunction(evt) {
    evt.preventDefault();
  }
  return React.createElement('button', {onClick: testFunction}, 'Test click');
}

function ComponentWithArrowFunction() {
  const testFunction = (evt) => {
    evt.preventDefault();
  }
  return React.createElement('button', {onClick: testFunction}, 'Test click');
}


const testFunctionInlineOutside = function(evt) {
  return evt.preventDefault();
}
function ComponentWithInlineFunctionOutside() {
  return React.createElement('button', {onClick: testFunctionInlineOutside}, 'Test click');
}

const testFunctionArrowOutside = (evt) => {
  evt.preventDefault();
}
function ComponentWithArrowFunctionOutside() {
  return React.createElement('button', {onClick: testFunctionArrowOutside}, 'Test click');
}

Tests:

ComponentWithOuterFunctionUseCallback
ReactDOM.render(React.createElement(ComponentWithOuterFunctionUseCallback), document.getElementById('root'))
ComponentWithUseCallback
ReactDOM.render(React.createElement(ComponentWithUseCallback), document.getElementById('root'))
ComponentWithInlineFunction
ReactDOM.render(React.createElement(ComponentWithInlineFunction), document.getElementById('root'))
ComponentWithArrowFunction
ReactDOM.render(React.createElement(ComponentWithArrowFunction), document.getElementById('root'))
ComponentWithInlineFunctionOutside
ReactDOM.render(React.createElement(ComponentWithInlineFunctionOutside), document.getElementById('root'))
ComponentWithArrowFunctionOutside
ReactDOM.render(React.createElement(ComponentWithArrowFunctionOutside), document.getElementById('root'))

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
ComponentWithOuterFunctionUseCallback
ComponentWithUseCallback
ComponentWithInlineFunction
ComponentWithArrowFunction
ComponentWithInlineFunctionOutside
ComponentWithArrowFunctionOutside

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: one year ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/134.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/134.0.0.0

Browser/OS: Chrome 134 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
ComponentWithOuterFunctionUseCallback	41788.9 Ops/sec
ComponentWithUseCallback	41704.0 Ops/sec
ComponentWithInlineFunction	34844.1 Ops/sec
ComponentWithArrowFunction	34746.9 Ops/sec
ComponentWithInlineFunctionOutside	43858.0 Ops/sec
ComponentWithArrowFunctionOutside	43764.1 Ops/sec

Related benchmarks:

React useCallback hook vs. function vs. external (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: ComponentWithOuterFunctionUseCallback vs ComponentWithUseCallback vs ComponentWithInlineFunction vs ComponentWithArrowFunction vs ComponentWithInlineFunctionOutside vs ComponentWithArrowFunctionOutside

Created: 2 years ago by: Guest

Jump to the latest result

ComponentWithOuterFunctionUseCallback

ComponentWithUseCallback

ComponentWithInlineFunction

ComponentWithArrowFunction

ComponentWithInlineFunctionOutside

ComponentWithArrowFunctionOutside

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A