Run results for: While vs For loop

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:132.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/132.0

Browser: Firefox 132

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

For loop

10.8M/s

While loop

7.1M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ For loop	10,818,140 Ops/sec
While loop	7,101,972 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); }