Run results for: Local scope vs outer scope variables

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/119.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 119

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
Cache in the inner scope	1652739.8 Ops/sec
Do not cache at all	15345013.0 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();