Run results for: While vs For loop

Run details:

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Browser: Pale Moon (Firefox Variant) 33

Operating system: Windows 7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 7 months ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

For loop

3.3M/s

While loop

600K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ For loop	3,305,589 Ops/sec
While loop	600,404 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); }