Run results for: Direct call vs bind vs call vs apply vs self

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 14_1_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.90 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 89

Operating system: Mac OS X 14.1.1

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

direct call

82K/s

apply

80K/s

call

78K/s

bind

77K/s

method call

72K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ direct call	81,633 Ops/sec
apply	79,516 Ops/sec
call	77,935 Ops/sec
bind	76,644 Ops/sec
method call	72,079 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

function test(msg) {
  console.log(this, msg);
}
function test1(self, msg) {
  console.log(self, msg);
}
function test2(msg) {
  console.log(this, msg);
}
function test3(msg) {
  console.log(this, msg);
}
function test4(msg) {
  console.log(this, msg);
}
String.prototype.test5 = function(msg) {
  console.log(this, msg)
}

Tests:

direct call
test1("World", "Hello");
bind
test2.bind("World", "Hello")();
call
test3.call("World", "Hello");
apply
test4.apply("World", ["Hello"]);
method call
"World".test5("Hello")