Benchmark: For vs recursion

Tests:

Recursion
function printNumber(n) { if (n < 0) return; console.log(n); printNumber(n - 1); } printNumber(10);
For loop
function printNumber(n) { for (let i = n; i >= 0; i--) { console.log(i); } } printNumber(10);

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Previous results

Test case name	Result
Recursion
For loop

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: one year ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.75 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 73 on Linux

Test name	Executions per second
Recursion	214.8 Ops/sec
For loop	217.9 Ops/sec

For vs recursion (version: 0)