Run results for: eval vs new Function

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_3_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.3.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 17

Operating system: iOS 17.3.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

new Function

13.6M/s

eval

4.2M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ new Function	13,628,176 Ops/sec
eval	4,225,497 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var func = new Function("return 2 * 3");

Tests:

eval
eval("2 * 3");
new Function
func();