Run results for: IIFE vs eval()

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.5 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 16

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
eval	3608635.0 Ops/sec
iife	12649250.0 Ops/sec

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;}());