Run results for: For Loop vs While Loop vs indexOf

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/86.0.4240.198 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 86

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.13.4

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
For Loop for item towards beginning	4027263.0 Ops/sec
While Loop for item towards beginning	4239817.0 Ops/sec
indexOf for item towards beginning	5092349.0 Ops/sec
For Loop for item towards end	4303794.0 Ops/sec
While Loop for item towards end	4277369.0 Ops/sec
indexOf for item towards end	5087059.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var arr = ['apple', 'banana', 'cherry', 'donuts', 'eggplant', 'french fries', 'goulash', 'hamburger', 'ice cream', 'juice', 'kebab', 'lemonade', 'mango', 'nuts', 'octopus', 'parsley', 'quail egg', 'risotto', 'stew', 'tapas', 'udon', 'vanilla', 'wheat', 'xylotil', 'yogurt', 'zucchinni'];

function forLoop(array, item) {
	for (var i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
    	if (array[i] === item) {
          return i;
        }
    }
    return -1;
}

function whileLoop(array, item) {
  	var i = 0;
	while (i < array.length) {
    	if (array[i] === item) {
        	return i;
        }
      	i += 1;
    }
    return -1;
}

function indexOfNative(array, item) {
	return array.indexOf(item);
}

Tests:

For Loop for item towards beginning
forLoop(arr, 'donuts')
While Loop for item towards beginning
whileLoop(arr, 'donuts')
indexOf for item towards beginning
indexOfNative(arr, 'donuts')
For Loop for item towards end
forLoop(arr, 'yogurt')
While Loop for item towards end
whileLoop(arr, 'yogurt')
indexOf for item towards end
indexOfNative(arr, 'yogurt')

Run results for: For Loop vs While Loop vs indexOf

For Loop for item towards beginning

While Loop for item towards beginning

indexOf for item towards beginning

For Loop for item towards end

While Loop for item towards end

indexOf for item towards end