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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 115

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 8 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
function call	5.8 Ops/sec
local variable	5.6 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"); } }