Why is iterating through an array backwards faster than forwards

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Because your forwards-condition has to receive the length property of your array each time, whilst the other condition only has to check for “greater then zero”, a very fast task.

When your array length doesn’t change during the loop, and you really look at ns-perfomance, you can use

for (var i=0, l=arr.length; i<l; i++)

BTW: Instead of for (var i = arr.length; i > 0; --i) you might use for (var i = arr.length; i-- > 0; ) which really runs through your array from n-1 to 0, not from n to 1.

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