在使用大多数现代浏览器执行此测试后: https://jsben.ch/wY5fo

目前，最快的循环形式(在我看来也是语法上最明显的)。

具有长度缓存的标准for循环

    var i = 0, len = myArray.length;
    while (i < len) {
        // your code
        i++
    }

我想说，这绝对是我为JavaScript引擎开发者喝彩的地方。运行时应该优化为清晰，而不是聪明。

如果您想要一个更快的for循环，请在循环之外定义变量并使用下面的语法

  const iMax = lengthOftheLoop;
  var i = 0;
  for (; i < iMax; i++) {
    console.log("loop"+i);
  }

参考:https://medium.com/kbdev/voyage - - -最有效循环- - nodejs和位- js - 5961 d4524c2e

现在是2018年，所以更新一下会很好……

我真的不同意这个公认的答案。 它在不同的浏览器上有所不同。有的forEach更快，有的for循环，有的while 这里是所有方法的基准https://jsben.ch/mW36e

arr.forEach( a => {
  // ...
}

因为你可以看到很多for循环，比如for(a = 0;…)值得一提的是，如果没有'var'，变量将被全局定义，这可能会极大地影响速度，因此它会变慢。

Duff's device run faster on opera but not in firefox var arr = arr = new Array(11111111).fill(255); var benches = [ [ "empty", () => { for(var a = 0, l = arr.length; a < l; a++); }] , ["for-loop", () => { for(var a = 0, l = arr.length; a < l; ++a) var b = arr[a] + 1; }] , ["for-loop++", () => { for(var a = 0, l = arr.length; a < l; a++) var b = arr[a] + 1; }] , ["for-loop - arr.length", () => { for(var a = 0; a < arr.length; ++a ) var b = arr[a] + 1; }] , ["reverse for-loop", () => { for(var a = arr.length - 1; a >= 0; --a ) var b = arr[a] + 1; }] ,["while-loop", () => { var a = 0, l = arr.length; while( a < l ) { var b = arr[a] + 1; ++a; } }] , ["reverse-do-while-loop", () => { var a = arr.length - 1; // CAREFUL do { var b = arr[a] + 1; } while(a--); }] , ["forEach", () => { arr.forEach( a => { var b = a + 1; }); }] , ["for const..in (only 3.3%)", () => { var ar = arr.slice(0,arr.length/33); for( const a in ar ) { var b = a + 1; } }] , ["for let..in (only 3.3%)", () => { var ar = arr.slice(0,arr.length/33); for( let a in ar ) { var b = a + 1; } }] , ["for var..in (only 3.3%)", () => { var ar = arr.slice(0,arr.length/33); for( var a in ar ) { var b = a + 1; } }] , ["Duff's device", () => { var len = arr.length; var i, n = len % 8 - 1; if (n > 0) { do { var b = arr[len-n] + 1; } while (--n); // n must be greater than 0 here } n = (len * 0.125) ^ 0; if (n > 0) { do { i = --n <<3; var b = arr[i] + 1; var c = arr[i+1] + 1; var d = arr[i+2] + 1; var e = arr[i+3] + 1; var f = arr[i+4] + 1; var g = arr[i+5] + 1; var h = arr[i+6] + 1; var k = arr[i+7] + 1; } while (n); // n must be greater than 0 here also } }]]; function bench(title, f) { var t0 = performance.now(); var res = f(); return performance.now() - t0; // console.log(`${title} took ${t1-t0} msec`); } var globalVarTime = bench( "for-loop without 'var'", () => { // Here if you forget to put 'var' so variables'll be global for(a = 0, l = arr.length; a < l; ++a) var b = arr[a] + 1; }); var times = benches.map( function(a) { arr = new Array(11111111).fill(255); return [a[0], bench(...a)] }).sort( (a,b) => a[1]-b[1] ); var max = times[times.length-1][1]; times = times.map( a => {a[2] = (a[1]/max)*100; return a; } ); var template = (title, time, n) => `<div>` + `<span>${title} &nbsp;</span>` + `<span style="width:${3+n/2}%">&nbsp;${Number(time.toFixed(3))}msec</span>` + `</div>`; var strRes = times.map( t => template(...t) ).join("\n") + `<br><br>for-loop without 'var' ${globalVarTime} msec.`; var $container = document.getElementById("container"); $container.innerHTML = strRes; body { color:#fff; background:#333; font-family:helvetica; } body > div > div { clear:both } body > div > div > span { float:left; width:43%; margin:3px 0; text-align:right; } body > div > div > span:nth-child(2) { text-align:left; background:darkorange; animation:showup .37s .111s; -webkit-animation:showup .37s .111s; } @keyframes showup { from { width:0; } } @-webkit-keyframes showup { from { width:0; } } <div id="container"> </div>

截至2016年6月，在最新的Chrome上做了一些测试(2016年5月，浏览器市场份额为71%，并且还在增加):

The fastest loop is a for loop, both with and without caching length delivering really similar performance. (The for loop with cached length sometimes delivered better results than the one without caching, but the difference is almost negligible, which means the engine might be already optimized to favor the standard and probably most straightforward for loop without caching). The while loop with decrements was approximately 1.5 times slower than the for loop. A loop using a callback function (like the standard forEach), was approximately 10 times slower than the for loop.

我相信这个线程太旧了，它误导程序员认为他们需要缓存长度，或者使用反向遍历，同时递减来获得更好的性能，编写的代码不太容易读懂，更容易出错，而不是简单直接的for循环。因此，我建议:

If your app iterates over a lot of items or your loop code is inside a function that is used often, a straightforward for loop is the answer: for (var i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) { // Do stuff with arr[i] or i } If your app doesn't really iterate through lots of items or you just need to do small iterations here and there, using the standard forEach callback or any similar function from your JS library of choice might be more understandable and less prone to errors, since index variable scope is closed and you don't need to use brackets, accessing the array value directly: arr.forEach(function(value, index) { // Do stuff with value or index }); If you really need to scratch a few milliseconds while iterating over billions of rows and the length of your array doesn't change through the process, you might consider caching the length in your for loop. Although I think this is really not necessary nowadays: for (var i = 0, len = arr.length; i < len; i++) { // Do stuff with arr[i] }

我总是用第一种体裁写作。

即使编译器足够智能，可以为数组优化它，但如果我们在这里使用DOMNodeList或一些计算长度的复杂对象，它仍然是智能的?

我知道关于数组的问题是什么，但我认为用一种风格编写所有循环是一个很好的实践。

我已经尝试了一些其他方法来迭代一个巨大的数组，并发现将数组长度减半，然后在一个循环中迭代这两部分更快。这种性能差异可以在处理大型数组时看到。

var firstHalfLen =0;
var secondHalfLen = 0;
var count2=0;
var searchterm = "face";
var halfLen = arrayLength/2;
if(arrayLength%2==halfLen)
{
   firstHalfLen = Math.ceil(halfLen);
   secondHalfLen=Math.floor(halfLen);
}
else
{
   firstHalfLen=halfLen;
   secondHalfLen=halfLen;
}
for(var firstHalfCOunter=0,secondHalfCounter = arrayLength-secondHalfLen;
    firstHalfCOunter < firstHalfLen;
    firstHalfCOunter++)
{
  if(mainArray[firstHalfCOunter].search(new RegExp(searchterm, "i"))> -1)
  {
    count2+=1;
  }
  if(secondHalfCounter < arrayLength)
  {
    if(mainArray[secondHalfCounter].search(new RegExp(searchterm, "i"))> -1)
    {
        count2+=1;
    }
    secondHalfCounter++; 
  }
}

缓存长度for循环与上面的方法之间的一些性能比较(使用timer.js)。

http://jsfiddle.net/tejzpr/bbLgzxgo/