Run results for: Custom Event vs Callback

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

Custom Event

6K/s

Callback

548/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Custom Event	6,103 Ops/sec
Callback	548 Ops/sec

Tests:

Custom Event
let i = 1001; const results = []; while (--i) { window.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent('custom:test')); }
Callback
function cb() { console.log('hi') } let i = 1001; const results = []; while (--i) { cb(); }