Run results for: While vs For loop

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 121

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

For loop

16.8M/s

While loop

9.0M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ For loop	16,757,780 Ops/sec
While loop	8,974,622 Ops/sec

Tests:

For loop
var acts = "BRA|BRA|FLR|VSL|BRA".split("|"); for (var i = 0; i < acts.length -1; i++) { if (acts[i] == "BRA") acts.splice(i, 1); }
While loop
var acts = "BRA|BRA|FLR|VSL|BRA".split("|"); var i = acts.length; while (i--) { if (acts[i] == "BRA") acts.splice(i, 1); }