Run results for: Direct call vs bind vs call vs apply vs self (with many params)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 126

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

method call

122K/s

call

112K/s

bind

111K/s

direct call

106K/s

apply

104K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ method call	122,000 Ops/sec
call	112,029 Ops/sec
bind	110,986 Ops/sec
direct call	105,737 Ops/sec
apply	104,293 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

function test(a, b, c, d, e, f) {
  console.log(this, a, b, c, d, e, f);
}
function test1(self, a, b, c, d, e, f) {
  console.log(self, a, b, c, d, e, f);
}
function test2(a, b, c, d, e, f) {
  console.log(this, a, b, c, d, e, f);
}
function test3(a, b, c, d, e, f) {
  console.log(this, a, b, c, d, e, f);
}
function test4(a, b, c, d, e, f) {
  console.log(this, a, b, c, d, e, f);
}
String.prototype.test5 = function(a, b, c, d, e, f) {
  console.log(this, a, b, c, d, e, f)
}

Tests:

direct call
test1("a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f");
bind
test2.bind("a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f")();
call
test3.call("a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f");
apply
test4.apply(this, ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f"]);
method call
"_".test5("a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f")