Run results for: Caching length property vs getting it each time in the loop

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:152.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/152.0

Browser: Firefox 152

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one month ago

Cache length

3.8M/s

Do not cache

2.6M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Cache length	3,782,540 Ops/sec
Do not cache	2,553,183 Ops/sec

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]; }