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/127.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 127

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

For Loop for item towards beginning

4.3M/s

While Loop for item towards beginning

4.3M/s

indexOf for item towards beginning

4.1M/s

While Loop for item towards end

3.9M/s

indexOf for item towards end

3.9M/s

For Loop for item towards end

3.8M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ For Loop for item towards beginning	4,330,676 Ops/sec
While Loop for item towards beginning	4,296,474 Ops/sec
indexOf for item towards beginning	4,076,852 Ops/sec
While Loop for item towards end	3,916,137 Ops/sec
indexOf for item towards end	3,852,243 Ops/sec
For Loop for item towards end	3,766,508 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')