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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:126.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/126.0

Browser: Firefox 126

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

direct call

40K/s

apply

39K/s

bind

39K/s

call

38K/s

method call

37K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ direct call	39,918 Ops/sec
apply	39,040 Ops/sec
bind	39,017 Ops/sec
call	38,228 Ops/sec
method call	37,455 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")