Are you sure about those numbers (can you show your code?) Every benchmark I've seen shows a much bigger difference. Here's a jsperf (courtesy of the WayBackMac

Are you sure about those numbers (can you show your code?) Every benchmark I've seen shows a much bigger difference. Here's a jsperf (courtesy of the WayBackMachine) that shows a difference of about 20x+ over normal function calls. https://web.archive.org/web/20141121220218/http://jsperf.com/function-calls-direct-vs-apply-vs-call-vs-bind/33 https://web.archive.org/web/20141121220218/http://jsperf.com...