Run results for: while loop vs for loop: Simplest case

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:142.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/142.0

Browser: Firefox 142

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 11 months ago

for loop 1

609.6M/s

while loop 1

605.0M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ for loop 1	609,585,280 Ops/sec
while loop 1	605,027,520 Ops/sec

Tests:

for loop 1
var a = ["a","b","c","d","f"]; for (var i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {}
while loop 1
var a = ["a","b","c","d","f"]; var i = 0; while (i < a.length) {i++;}