Run results for: iframe vs window

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:131.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/131.0

Browser: Firefox 131

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

Iframe

10.5M/s

Native

8.9M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Iframe	10,534,490 Ops/sec
Native	8,923,804 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var iframe = document.createElement("iframe");
iframe.src = "about:blank";
document.documentElement.appendChild(iframe);
var _window = iframe.contentWindow;
var iframeSplit = _window.String.prototype.split;
var split = String.prototype.split;
document.documentElement.removeChild(iframe);

Tests:

Native
split.call("a_random_string_test", "");
Iframe
iframeSplit.call("a_random_string_test", "");