Performance of Assigning variables in JavaScript (v31)

Revision 31 of this benchmark created on

Description

http://stackoverflow.com/q/8624939/

Replaced location with locatio for the test.

Extended cases

Setup

window.locatio = {};
    window.id = "yahoo"; //Declare global variable
    var hrefMap = {
      camelCase: "http://www.thecamelcase.com",
      jsFiddle: "http://www.jsfiddle.net",
      cricInfo: "http://www.cricinfo.com",
      apple: "http://www.apple.com",
      nope1: "",
      nope2: "",
      nope3: "",
      nope4: "",
      nope5: "",
      nope6: "",
      nope7: "",
      nope8: "",
      nope9: "",
      nope0: "",
      yahoo: "http://www.yahoo.com"
    };

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if-elseif
if (id === "camelCase") {
  window.locatio.href = "http://www.thecamelcase.com";
} else if (id === "jsFiddle") {
  window.locatio.href = "http://jsfiddle.net/";
} else if (id === "cricInfo") {
  window.locatio.href = "http://cricinfo.com/";
} else if (id === "nope1") {} else if (id === "nope2") {} else if (id === "nope3") {} else if (id === "nope4") {} else if (id === "nope5") {} else if (id === "nope6") {} else if (id === "nope7") {} else if (id === "nope8") {} else if (id === "nope9") {} else if (id === "nope0") {} else if (id === "apple") {
  window.locatio.href = "http://apple.com/";
} else if (id === "yahoo") {
  window.locatio.href = "http://yahoo.com/";
}
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Switch
switch (id) {
case 'camelCase':
  window.locatio.href = "http://www.thecamelcase.com";
  break;
case 'jsFiddle':
  window.locatio.href = "http://www.jsfiddle.net";
  break;
case 'cricInfo':
  window.locatio.href = "http://www.cricinfo.com";
  break;
case 'apple':
  window.locatio.href = "http://www.apple.com";
  break;
case "nope1":
  break;
case "nope2":
  break;
case "nope3":
  break;
case "nope4":
  break;
case "nope5":
  break;
case "nope6":
  break;
case "nope7":
  break;
case "nope8":
  break;
case "nope9":
  break;
case "nope0":
  break;
case 'yahoo':
  window.locatio.href = "http://www.yahoo.com";
  break;

}
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hrefMap

window.locatio.href = hrefMap[id];
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Direct location.href
window.locatio.href = {
  camelCase: "http://www.thecamelcase.com",
  jsFiddle: "http://www.jsfiddle.net",
  cricInfo: "http://www.cricinfo.com",
  apple: "http://www.apple.com",
  nope1: "",
  nope2: "",
  nope3: "",
  nope4: "",
  nope5: "",
  nope6: "",
  nope7: "",
  nope8: "",
  nope9: "",
  nope0: "",
  yahoo: "http://www.yahoo.com"
}[id];
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