Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/95.0.4638.69 Safari/537.36
Chrome 95
Mac OS X 10.15.7
Desktop
3 years ago
Test name Executions per second
Inline 7477298.5 Ops/sec
Outside 6679709.0 Ops/sec
Script Preparation code:
AخA
 
window.foo = ['cat', 'dog', 'bird'];
Tests:
  • Inline

     
    foo.forEach((item) => {
      const j = 'test';
      
     const outside = (i) => {
      return i === j;
     }
      outside(item);
    })
  • Outside

    x
     
    const outside = (i, j) => {
      return i === j;
    }
    foo.forEach((item) => {
      const j = 'test';
      outside(item);
    })