> Because the bind function implementation shows why it is so slow. Does it? I'm not going to pretend to know why that would be. Your explanation would be welc

> Because the bind function implementation shows why it is so slow. Does it? I'm not going to pretend to know why that would be. Your explanation would be welcome. I don't know if this sebmck fellow has benchmarked the code, but another commenter below found it to be a whopping 25% faster. Micro-optimizations, anyone? > 99.5% of JS programmers will never read the spec You don't have to read the spec, it's literally the first thing after the description paragraph on MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Function/bind https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... As others have mentioned, when I bind a function, I don't expect it to be able to be messed with. Anyway, I'm done debating, but it should be quite obvious that there's no need to throw bind() away.