Recursion vs For Loop vs While Loop (v4)

Revision 4 of this benchmark created on

Description

Fixing the while loop.

Preparation HTML

<script>
  var nums = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10];
  
  function sum_recurse(arr, i) {
   i = i || 0;
   var len = arr.length;

   function better_recurse(arr, i) {
      if (i > len) {
         return 0;
      } else {
         return arr[i] + better_recurse(arr, i + 1);
      }
   }
  }
  function sum_while(arr) {
   var total = 0,
       i = arr.length;
  
   while (i--) {
    total += arr[i];
   }
  
   return total;
  }
  
  function sum_for(arr) {
   var total = 0,
       len = arr.length;
  
   for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) {
    total += arr[i];
   }
  
   return total;
  }
</script>

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sum_while(nums);
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sum_for(nums);
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