Run results for: Direct call vs bind vs call vs apply vs self (with many params)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/135.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 135

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

method call

228K/s

call

219K/s

apply

218K/s

direct call

213K/s

bind

213K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ method call	227,887 Ops/sec
call	218,793 Ops/sec
apply	217,898 Ops/sec
direct call	213,110 Ops/sec
bind	212,831 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

function test(a, b, c, d, e, f) {
  console.log(this, a, b, c, d, e, f);
}
function test1(self, a, b, c, d, e, f) {
  console.log(self, a, b, c, d, e, f);
}
function test2(a, b, c, d, e, f) {
  console.log(this, a, b, c, d, e, f);
}
function test3(a, b, c, d, e, f) {
  console.log(this, a, b, c, d, e, f);
}
function test4(a, b, c, d, e, f) {
  console.log(this, a, b, c, d, e, f);
}
String.prototype.test5 = function(a, b, c, d, e, f) {
  console.log(this, a, b, c, d, e, f)
}

Tests:

direct call
test1("a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f");
bind
test2.bind("a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f")();
call
test3.call("a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f");
apply
test4.apply(this, ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f"]);
method call
"_".test5("a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f")