Run results for: function vs class

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User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 121

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

function expression

780/s

function declaration

729/s

class

382/s

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Script Preparation code:

var arr = [];

Tests:

function declaration
function functionDeclaration(item) { arr.push(item); } for (let i = 1; i < 10000; i++) { functionDeclaration(i); }
function expression
var functionExpression = function(item) { arr.push(item); }; for (let i = 1; i < 10000; i++) { functionExpression(i); }
class
class Test { constructor(item) { this.item = item; } addItem(){ arr.push(this.item) } } for (let i = 1; i < 10000; i++) { new Test(i).addItem(); }