Caching length property vs getting it each time in the loop
save length of the array in the variable vs get it the loop
Date tested:
3 years ago
User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Android 11; Mobile; rv:88.0) Gecko/88.0 Firefox/88.0
Test name
Executions per second
Cache length
808042.6 Ops/sec
Do not cache
795343.4 Ops/sec
Benchmark definition (click to collapse):
Script Preparation code:
var arr = []; var count = 1000; for(var i = 0; i<count; i++) { arr.push(i); }
Tests:
Cache length
var arrLen = arr.length; var sum = 0; for (var i = 0; i < arrLen; i++){ sum = arr[i]; }
Do not cache
var sum = 0; for (var i = 0; i < arr.length; i++){ sum = arr[i]; }
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