Run results for: Direct Array Access vs. New Local Constant Variable in A Loop

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.4 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 15

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Direct Array Access	95645.0 Ops/sec
Local Variable Access	99581.6 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var arr = [
    { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" },
    { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" },
    { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" },
    { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" },
    { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" },
    { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" },
    { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" },
    { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" },
    { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" },
    { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" },
    { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" },
    { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" },
    { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" },
    { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" },
    { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" },
    { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" },
    { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" },
    { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" },
    { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" },
    { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" }, { "key": "value" },
]

var newarr1 = []
var newarr2 = []

Tests:

Direct Array Access
for (var i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) { newarr1.push(arr[i]) }
Local Variable Access
for (var i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) { const el = arr[i] newarr2.push(el) }

Run results for: Direct Array Access vs. New Local Constant Variable in A Loop

Direct Array Access

Local Variable Access