Run results for: Custom Event vs Callback

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_4 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/123.0.6312.52 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Chrome Mobile iOS 123

Operating system: iOS 17.4

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Custom Event

4K/s

Callback

64/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Custom Event	3,719 Ops/sec
Callback	64 Ops/sec

Tests:

Custom Event
let i = 1001; const results = []; while (--i) { window.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent('custom:test')); }
Callback
function cb() { console.log('hi') } let i = 1001; const results = []; while (--i) { cb(); }