Benchmark: IIFE vs eval() - MeasureThat.net

Script Preparation code:

var result;

Tests:

eval
eval("(function(){var sum = 0; for (var i = 1; i < 100; i++){sum += i;} return sum;}());");
iife
(function(){var sum = 0; for (var i = 1; i < 100; i++){sum += i;} return sum;}());

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Previous results

Test case name	Result
eval
iife

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 3 months ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/119.0.0.0

Browser/OS: Chrome 119 on Linux

Test name	Executions per second
eval	4438307.0 Ops/sec
iife	18971030.0 Ops/sec

IIFE vs eval() (version: 0)