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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/66.0.3359.139 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 66

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.13.5

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 6 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
direct call	73324.5 Ops/sec
bind	85836.2 Ops/sec
call	84357.4 Ops/sec
apply	84898.6 Ops/sec
method call	75100.0 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