Run results for: rest parameters vs arguments (no extra args)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_3_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.3.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 18

Operating system: iOS 18.3.2

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
arguments	2101.3 Ops/sec
rest parameter	2711.2 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

window.els = [];

function t1() {
  window.els.push(...arguments);
}

function t2(...args) {
  window.els.push(...args);
}

Tests:

arguments
window.els.length = 0; for (let i = 0; i < 2000; i++) { if (i % 3 === 0) { els.push(t1('div', {class: 'foo'}, i, i + 1, i + 2)); } else { els.push(t1('div', {class: 'foo'}, i)); } }
rest parameter
window.els.length = 0; for (let i = 0; i < 2000; i++) { if (i % 3 === 0) { els.push(t2('div', {class: 'foo'}, i, i + 1, i + 2)); } else { els.push(t2('div', {class: 'foo'}, i)); } }