Run results for: 1000 x event listeners vs single event listener with array of 1000 callbacks

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/136.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 136

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
1000 event listeners	538.3 Ops/sec
1 event listener handling an array of 1000 callbacks	33604.6 Ops/sec

Tests:

1000 event listeners
let i = 1001; const results = []; while (--i) { const index = i; window.addEventListener('custom:test', () => { results.push(index); }, {once: true}); } window.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent('custom:test'));
1 event listener handling an array of 1000 callbacks
let i = 1001; const results = []; const callbacks = []; while (--i) { const index = i; callbacks.push(() => { results.push(index); }) } window.addEventListener('custom:test', () => { callbacks.forEach((cb) => { cb() }) }, {once: true}); window.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent('custom:test'));