Run results for: iframe vs window

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/130.0.6723.78 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Chrome Mobile iOS 130

Operating system: iOS 18.0

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

Native

24.0M/s

Iframe

16.9M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Native	24,031,308 Ops/sec
Iframe	16,906,728 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", "");