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Discussion on: Why you should stop declaring variables inside a for loop (especially in JavaScript)

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Basti Ortiz • Edited

Whoa, this is crazy. I have always dismissed the declaration inside the loop having a very minimal performance impact. Apparently my assumptions were wrong.

Thanks for this! Will definitely take note of this from here on out.

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Nicola

Thanks a lot! Check this video from Unity, is for C# but some principles could be applied to general programming languages, it shows a lot of data optimization and performance boost using the Data-Driven programming pattern

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Basti Ortiz

Thanks! I definitely will watch it.

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Jordan Kicklighter

Whao, this is crazy

That's because it is incorrect. Please read the rest of the comments in this article for better explanations.

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Basti Ortiz

Thanks for the heads up!