Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.93 Safari/537.36
Chrome 90
Windows
Desktop
4 years ago
Test name Executions per second
Control 277600768.0 Ops/sec
localStorage 479456.8 Ops/sec
sessionStorage 460451.6 Ops/sec
Read Array 577794.4 Ops/sec
Script Preparation code:
AخA
 
localStorage.setItem('foo', 'bar')
sessionStorage.setItem('foo', 'bar')
var ARR = ['bar'];
Tests:
  • Control

     
    var FOO = 'bar';
  • localStorage

     
    var FOO = localStorage.getItem('foo');
  • sessionStorage

     
    var FOO = sessionStorage.getItem('foo');
  • Read Array

     
    var FOO = ARR[Math.floor(Math.random() * ARR.length)]