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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/601.7.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.1.3 Safari/601.7.8

Browser: Safari 9

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.10.5

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 7 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Cache length	9602.5 Ops/sec
Do not cache	4799.4 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]; }