Run results for: eval vs new Function vs function(Sample JS Functions)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.3 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 18

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

regular

4.3M/s

new Function

4.3M/s

eval

3.7M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ regular	4,299,649 Ops/sec
new Function	4,271,471 Ops/sec
eval	3,663,957 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var newFunc = new Function("let r = Math.random().toString(36).substring(7).includes('x');");
var regular = function(){
return Math.random().toString(36).substring(7).includes('x');;
}

Tests:

eval
eval("let r = Math.random().toString(36).substring(7).includes('x');");
new Function
newFunc();
regular
regular()