Run results for: inner / outer

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/138.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 138

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 10 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
outer	2324008.0 Ops/sec
inner	2117838.5 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<body>
  <a href="//www.yahoo.com" target="_blank">Yahoo!</a><br/>
  <a href="//www.altavista.com" target="_blank">AltaVista</a><br/>
  <a href="//www.google.com" target="_blank">Google</a><br/>
</body>

Tests:

outer
(function registerHandlers() { var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName('a'); for (var i = 0; i < anchors.length; i++) { anchors[i].onclick = bla.bind(null, i); } function bla(i) { alert(i); return false; } })();
inner
(function registerHandlers() { var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName('a'); for (var i = 0; i < anchors.length; i++) { anchors[i].onclick = (function(idx) { return function() { alert(idx); return false; } })(i); } })();