Benchmark: Loop vs Recursion for Array

Script Preparation code:

var DogArr = [ "Great Pyranees", "Great Dane", "Irish Wolfhound", "Golden Retriever" ];

function runLoop() {
	for( var i = 0; i < DogArr.length; i++ )
    {
    	console.log( DogArr[ i ] );
    }
}

function runRecursion() {
  	var count = 0;
	function loopThroughArray() {
    	if( count < DogArr.length ) {
          console.log( DogArr[ count ] );
          loopThroughArray();
        } else {
        	return;
        }
      
    }

}

Tests:

Loop
runLoop();
Recursion
runRecursion();

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
Loop
Recursion

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 3 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0

Browser/OS: Firefox 91 on Mac OS X 10.15

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Test name	Executions per second
Loop	8167.4 Ops/sec
Recursion	38713200.0 Ops/sec

Loop vs Recursion for Array (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: Loop vs Recursion

Created: 8 years ago by: Guest

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Loop

Recursion

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A