Run results for: While vs For loop

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 14; Mobile; rv:131.0) Gecko/131.0 Firefox/131.0

Browser: Firefox Mobile 131

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

For loop

4.2M/s

While loop

2.8M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ For loop	4,178,630 Ops/sec
While loop	2,845,027 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); }