Run results for: While vs For loop

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_6_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.6 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 17

Operating system: iOS 17.6.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

For loop

14.9M/s

While loop

9.1M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ For loop	14,943,390 Ops/sec
While loop	9,088,801 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); }