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Nijeesh Joshy
Nijeesh Joshy

Reputation: 1481

Why is there a performance diffrence between running two separate loops vs single for-loop in js

i ran this code on the my server an i noticed there is a performance difference between running two separate loops vs single for-loop can someone explain why ?

for(let k=0;k<100000000;k++) {
    let s = Date.now();
    for(let i=0;i<1e9;i++) { i + 100 }
    for(let i=0;i<1e9;i++) { i + 100 }
    let s1 = Date.now() - s;

    s = Date.now();
    for(let i=0;i<2e9;i++) { i + 100 }
    let s2 = Date.now() - s;

    console.log(s1, s2 , s1 - s2)
}

these are my results in json: https://pastebin.com/bRqku0zJ

Upvotes: 2

Views: 78

Answers (1)

Nijeesh Joshy
Nijeesh Joshy

Reputation: 1481

I posted the question in dev2 also. Thanks to da-ti. https://dev.to/dati/comment/eii1

This has nothing to do with JIT compiler, loops, multi-threading or BigInt. If this was a some quiz question it would test: -Understating that every number in js implicitly is floating point number -Knowing how floating point addition works and that (unlike addition of integers) it takes multiple hw level operations

Addition_and_subtraction

To make this test fair for both one loop variant and two loops variant:

 s = Date.now() 
 for(let i=0;i<1e10;i++) { i + 100 } 
 for(let i=1e10;i<2e10;i++) { i + 100 } 
 console.log(Date.now() - s)

 s = Date.now() for(let i=0;i<2e10;i++) { i + 100 }
 console.log(Date.now() - s)

Now both variants work with exact same numbers and perform exact same floating point operations (time diff is consistently <20ms on my machine now, where it was 500-1500ms before)

TLDR: floating point

Upvotes: 2

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