Hi,
In a recent thread
(http://mozdev.org/pipermail/project_owners/2006-April/007711.html), Konstantin
hinted that use of a temp variable is better optimized than repeated reference
to a deeply nested
property. I'm wondering if anyone can comment on this? I'm more used to
compiled languages where
this kind of thing is irrelevent. Is it relevent in Mozilla (SpiderMonkey)
Javascript?
Example: which is more efficient, or are they the same?
var o = {};
o.o = {}, o.o.o = {}, o.o.o.o = {}, o.o.o.o.o = "foo";
for (var i=0; i<999999; i++)
dump(o.o.o.o.o);
or
var o = {};
o.o = {}, o.o.o = {}, o.o.o.o = {}, o.o.o.o.o = "foo";
var tmp = o.o.o.o.o;
for (var i=0; i<999999; i++)
dump(temp);
If there's a way to benchmark this (Venkmann?), I'd like to know.
Thanks for the advice,
Eric
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