$.inArray, _.indexOf, and a simple loop (v26)

Revision 26 of this benchmark created on

Preparation HTML

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.1/jquery.min.js">
</script>
<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/underscore.js/1.3.3/underscore-min.js">
</script>

Setup

var r;
    var array = ['1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '0', '11', '12', '33', '44', '55', '66', '77', '88', '99'];
    
    function contains(array, value) {
      var index = -1,
          length = array.length;
    
      while (++index < length) {
        if (array[index] === value) {
          return true;
        }
      }
      return false;
    }
    
    function contains2(array, value) {
      var index = array.length;
      while (index--) {
        if (array[index] === value) {
          return true;
        }
      }
      return false;
    }

Test runner

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$.inArray
r = $.inArray('33', array);
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_.indexOf
r = _.indexOf(array, '33') > -1;
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Simple loop
r = contains(array, '33');
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underscore
r = _.contains(array, '33');
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[].filter
r = array.filter( function(v){ return v == 33 } ).length > 0
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contains2
r = contains2(array, '33');
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Native indexOf
r = array.indexOf('33') > -1;
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