Run results for: Storing a temporary variable vs repeated function call

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/53.0.2785.143 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 53

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.11.6

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 7 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
function call	0.8 Ops/sec
local variable	0.8 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var temp = "test";
function func() {
  return temp;  
}

Tests:

function call
for(var i=0; i<100000; i++) { var local = func(); if(local == "test") { console.log("test"); } }
local variable
var local = func(); for(var i=0; i<100000; i++) { if(local == "test") { console.log("test"); } }