Run results for: While vs For loop

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 18_3_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.3.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 18

Operating system: iOS 18.3.2

Device Platform: Tablet

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

For loop

15.0M/s

While loop

9.1M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ For loop	14,958,547 Ops/sec
While loop	9,088,706 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); }