Run results for: Local scope vs outer scope variables

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 14092.77.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/93.0.4577.107 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 93

Operating system: Chrome OS 14092.77.0

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Cache in the inner scope	302791.3 Ops/sec
Do not cache at all	2861110.5 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var testVar = 10;

Tests:

Cache in the inner scope
function doTest1(){ var sum = 0; for (var i = 0; i < testVar; i++){ sum = sum + i; } } doTest1();
Do not cache at all
function doTest2(){ var sum = 0; var testVarLocal = testVar; for (var i = 0; i < testVarLocal; i++){ sum = sum + i; } } doTest2();