Run results for: eval vs new Function vs function(Sample JS Functions)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_0_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.0 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 17

Operating system: iOS 17.0.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

new Function

3.7M/s

regular

3.0M/s

eval

2.4M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ new Function	3,650,123 Ops/sec
regular	2,978,128 Ops/sec
eval	2,350,611 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var newFunc = new Function("let r = Math.random().toString(36).substring(7).includes('x');");
var regular = function(){
return Math.random().toString(36).substring(7).includes('x');;
}

Tests:

eval
eval("let r = Math.random().toString(36).substring(7).includes('x');");
new Function
newFunc();
regular
regular()