Run results for: JSON.parse() vs. eval()

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 26_0_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/140.0.7339.242 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Chrome Mobile iOS 140

Operating system: iOS 26.0.0

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 6 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
JSON.parse()	14286801.0 Ops/sec
eval()	2523477.2 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var jsonString = '{"key1": "val1", "key2": 7}'

Tests:

JSON.parse()
var dummy = JSON.parse(jsonString);
eval()
eval('var dummy = ' + jsonString);