Run results for: For Loop vs While Loop vs indexOf vs includes

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 123

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

While Loop for item towards beginning

6.2M/s

For Loop for item towards beginning

6.2M/s

indexOf for item towards beginning

6.1M/s

includes for item towards start

6.0M/s

For Loop for item towards end

5.4M/s

includes for item towards end

5.4M/s

While Loop for item towards end

5.3M/s

indexOf for item towards end

5.3M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ While Loop for item towards beginning	6,240,221 Ops/sec
For Loop for item towards beginning	6,194,838 Ops/sec
indexOf for item towards beginning	6,078,462 Ops/sec
includes for item towards start	6,044,872 Ops/sec
For Loop for item towards end	5,382,998 Ops/sec
includes for item towards end	5,370,164 Ops/sec
While Loop for item towards end	5,331,822 Ops/sec
indexOf for item towards end	5,328,354 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);
}

function includesNative(array, item) {
    return array.includes(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')
includes for item towards start
includesNative(arr, 'donuts')
includes for item towards end
includesNative(arr, 'yogurt')