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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 14; Mobile; rv:145.0) Gecko/145.0 Firefox/145.0

Browser: Firefox Mobile 145

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 8 months ago

while loop 1

77.5M/s

for loop 1

66.1M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ while loop 1	77,450,472 Ops/sec
for loop 1	66,147,476 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++;}