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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 131

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

direct call

239K/s

method call

236K/s

apply

234K/s

bind

232K/s

call

231K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ direct call	239,222 Ops/sec
method call	236,408 Ops/sec
apply	234,042 Ops/sec
bind	232,061 Ops/sec
call	231,151 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")