Run results for: Direct call vs bind vs call vs apply vs self

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 16_3_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.3 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 16

Operating system: iOS 16.3.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
direct call	615423.2 Ops/sec
bind	448538.7 Ops/sec
call	428917.3 Ops/sec
apply	344394.8 Ops/sec
method call	411796.6 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

function test(msg) {
  console.log(this, msg);
}
function test1(self, msg) {
  console.log(self, msg);
}
function test2(msg) {
  console.log(this, msg);
}
function test3(msg) {
  console.log(this, msg);
}
function test4(msg) {
  console.log(this, msg);
}
String.prototype.test5 = function(msg) {
  console.log(this, msg)
}

Tests:

direct call
test1("World", "Hello");
bind
test2.bind("World", "Hello")();
call
test3.call("World", "Hello");
apply
test4.apply("World", ["Hello"]);
method call
"World".test5("Hello")

Run results for: Direct call vs bind vs call vs apply vs self

direct call

bind

call

apply

method call