lookup (no global lookup)

JavaScript performance comparison

Revision 5 of this test case created by Mariusz Nowak

Info

how much does scope lookup cost? and what about closure creation?

.. this time we're not querying value from global scope

Preparation code

<script>
  var random = Math.random;
</script>

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Test Ops/sec
1 lookup
var f = random();
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2 lookup
var f = (function(random) {
 return random();
}(random));
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5 lookups
var f = (function(random) {
 return (function(random) {
  return (function(random) {
   return (function(random) {
    return random();
   }(random));
  }(random));
 }(random));
}(random));
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