Run results for: for vs while vs for of vs forEach - MeasureThat.net

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.5 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 18

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 10 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
for i++	4167169.2 Ops/sec
for i--	4173808.5 Ops/sec
while i--	3780903.8 Ops/sec
for of	1757920.2 Ops/sec
forEach	2499544.8 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var arr = []
for (var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) arr[i] = i

Tests:

for i++
for (var i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) { var a = arr[i] }
for i--
for (var i = arr.length; i >= 0; i--) { var a = arr[i] }
while i--
var i = arr.length while (i--) { var a = arr[i] }
for of
for (var v of arr) { var a = v }
forEach
arr.forEach(v => { var a = v })