Run results for: For Loop vs While Loop vs indexOf vs includes

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 13; M2012K11AG) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 104

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 8 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
For Loop for item towards beginning	4782530.5 Ops/sec
While Loop for item towards beginning	4718327.0 Ops/sec
indexOf for item towards beginning	4916440.5 Ops/sec
For Loop for item towards end	4125821.0 Ops/sec
While Loop for item towards end	4152505.8 Ops/sec
indexOf for item towards end	5005071.5 Ops/sec
includes for item towards start	5014884.0 Ops/sec
includes for item towards end	5006549.0 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);
}

function includesNative(array, item) {
    return array.includes(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')
includes for item towards start
includesNative(arr, 'donuts')
includes for item towards end
includesNative(arr, 'yogurt')

Run results for: For Loop vs While Loop vs indexOf vs includes

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

includes for item towards start

includes for item towards end