Run results for: For Loop vs While Loop vs indexOf

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 121

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

While Loop for item towards beginning

7.1M/s

For Loop for item towards beginning

7.1M/s

indexOf for item towards beginning

6.6M/s

While Loop for item towards end

6.2M/s

For Loop for item towards end

6.2M/s

indexOf for item towards end

5.5M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ While Loop for item towards beginning	7,097,786 Ops/sec
For Loop for item towards beginning	7,084,780 Ops/sec
indexOf for item towards beginning	6,636,416 Ops/sec
While Loop for item towards end	6,246,690 Ops/sec
For Loop for item towards end	6,205,354 Ops/sec
indexOf for item towards end	5,546,926 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var arr = ['apple', 'banana', 'cherry', 'donuts', 'eggplant', 'french fries', 'goulash', 'hamburger', 'ice cream', 'juice', 'kebab', 'lemonade', 'mango', 'nuts', 'octopus', 'parsley', 'quail egg', 'risotto', 'stew', 'tapas', 'udon', 'vanilla', 'wheat', 'xylotil', 'yogurt', 'zucchinni'];

function forLoop(array, item) {
	for (var i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
    	if (array[i] === item) {
          return i;
        }
    }
    return -1;
}

function whileLoop(array, item) {
  	var i = 0;
	while (i < array.length) {
    	if (array[i] === item) {
        	return i;
        }
      	i += 1;
    }
    return -1;
}

function indexOfNative(array, item) {
	return array.indexOf(item);
}

Tests:

For Loop for item towards beginning
forLoop(arr, 'donuts')
While Loop for item towards beginning
whileLoop(arr, 'donuts')
indexOf for item towards beginning
indexOfNative(arr, 'donuts')
For Loop for item towards end
forLoop(arr, 'yogurt')
While Loop for item towards end
whileLoop(arr, 'yogurt')
indexOf for item towards end
indexOfNative(arr, 'yogurt')