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Javascript optimisation - while

to javascript qa by metafeather on Mar 26, 2006
Using as a benchmark the task of iterating over a live collection produced by getElementsByTagName. IE/Win, Gecko and Safari all agree as to the fastest means:

var i = 0, el, els = document.getElementsByTagName(nodeName);
while (el = els[i++]) {
    // [...]
}


Using a while loop and storing the live collection in a variable is the quickest technique in all of these browsers.
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