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/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 133

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

For Loop for item towards beginning

105.3M/s

While Loop for item towards beginning

102.2M/s

indexOf for item towards beginning

91.7M/s

For Loop for item towards end

48.2M/s

While Loop for item towards end

47.9M/s

indexOf for item towards end

35.6M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ For Loop for item towards beginning	105,329,176 Ops/sec
While Loop for item towards beginning	102,171,288 Ops/sec
indexOf for item towards beginning	91,663,296 Ops/sec
For Loop for item towards end	48,151,336 Ops/sec
While Loop for item towards end	47,881,048 Ops/sec
indexOf for item towards end	35,584,204 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')