Testing performance of different for loop variations in JavaScript. Creating 100,000 anchor link elements.

javascript-for-loop-test.js

/**
 * v0.1 - removing anchor tag DOM insertion; not neccessary for loop test.
 */

console.time('Multi-variable:');
for (var i = 0, k = 100000; i < k; i++) {
    var a = document.createElement('A');
    a.href = 'http://www.google.com';
    a.innerHTML = 'Link';
};
console.timeEnd('Multi-variable:');


console.time('Variable subtraction:');
for (var i = 100000; i--;) {
    var a = document.createElement('A');
    a.href = 'http://www.google.com';
    a.innerHTML = 'Link';
};
console.timeEnd('Variable subtraction:');


console.time('Standard:');
for (var i = 0; i < 100000; i++) {
    var a = document.createElement('A');
    a.href = 'http://www.google.com';
    a.innerHTML = 'Link';
};
console.timeEnd('Standard:');