Interesting proposal. I ran it ten times on LeetCode and didn't get a faster answer (not that that means anything!).
I ran both functions one million times on a 445-char lorem ipsum text in Chrome latest. It seems that caching the variable is marginally faster 😊
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Interesting proposal. I ran it ten times on LeetCode and didn't get a faster answer (not that that means anything!).
I ran both functions one million times on a 445-char lorem ipsum text in Chrome latest. It seems that caching the variable is marginally faster 😊