quick comparison doing a loop of nextTick()'s using different calling methods

to-bind-or-not-to-bind.js

'use strict';

const print = process._rawDebug;

const ITER = 1e6;
var t = process.hrtime();

(function runner(i) {
  if (i > ITER) return printTime();
  // Slowest
  //process.nextTick(() => runner(i + 1));

  // Faster
  process.nextTick(runner.bind(null, i + 1));

  // Fastest
  //process.nextTick(runner, i + 1);
})(0);

function printTime() {
  t = process.hrtime(t);
  print(((t[0] * 1e9 + t[1]) / ITER).toFixed(1) + ' ns/op');
}