Is it worth caching the length of an array in a Javascript loop? (v86)

Revision 86 of this benchmark created on

Description

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5349425/whats-the-best-to-loop-an-array-in-javascript

Preparation HTML

<script>
  var myArray = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20];
</script>

Test runner

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Testing in
TestOps/sec
FOR, cached in loop, prefix incr
for (var i = 0, len = myArray.length; i < len; ++i) {

}
ready
FOR, cached in loop, postfix incr
for (var i = 0, len = myArray.length; i < len; i++) {

}
ready
FOR, cached in loop, prefix decr
for (var i = myArray.length; --i;) {

}
ready
FOR, cached outside loop, prefix incr
len = myArray.length;
for (var i = 0; i < len; ++i) {

}
ready
FOR, not cached, prefix incr index
for (var i = 0; myArray[++i];) {

}
ready
FOR, not cached, prefix incr
for (var i = 0; i < myArray.length; ++i) {

}
ready
WHILE, prefix decr
len = myArray.length;
while (--len) {

}
ready
FOR IN
for (var i in myArray) {

}
ready
FOR, cached in loop, prefix incr, !=
for (var i = 0, len = myArray.length; i != len; ++i) {

}
ready

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