Benchmark: speed test query selector vs classname1

HTML Preparation code:

<ul id="list" class="c_list"><li class="li"></li></ul>

Tests:

query
document.querySelector(".c_list li");
id
document.getElementById('list').getElementsByClassName('li');

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Previous results

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Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 27 days ago):

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Let's break down what is being tested in this benchmark.

The benchmark is comparing the performance of two different methods to select elements from an HTML list: `document.querySelector()` and `document.getElementById().getElementsByClassName()`.

**Method 1: `document.querySelector()`**

This method uses a CSS selector to find the element. In this case, it's selecting all `li` elements inside the `.c_list` class. The querySelector() function returns a single value if found or null if not found, which is why it's often used when you only expect one match.

Pros:

* Efficient for simple selectors like this.
* Can be faster than other methods because it can use early returns and avoid unnecessary iterations.

Cons:

* May not work as expected with complex queries or multiple matches.
* Can be slower if the query is complex or if the DOM is highly dynamic.

**Method 2: `document.getElementById().getElementsByClassName()`**

This method first finds an element by its ID (`document.getElementById('list')`) and then gets all elements with a specific class name (`getElementsByClassName('li')`). This method returns an HTMLCollection, which is an array-like object containing the matched elements.

Pros:

* Can work well for cases where you need to get all elements matching a certain condition.
* Can be slower than querySelector() if only one match is expected, because it performs two steps: finding the element by ID and then iterating over the classes.

Cons:

* Less efficient than querySelector() in many cases.
* May have performance issues with large datasets or complex DOMs.

**Other considerations**

* The benchmark doesn't consider other factors that might impact performance, such as:
	+ Whether the element is visible or hidden on the page.
	+ Whether the element is present in the DOM at all (i.e., it was loaded from a separate file).
	+ Whether there are any CSS rules applied to the element that affect its visibility or layout.

**Library and special JS feature**

Neither of these methods uses a library, but it does use standard JavaScript features:

* `document` is a global object that represents the HTML document.
* `querySelector()` and `getElementsByClassName()` are part of the DOM API.
* CSS selectors are used to describe the structure of the element.

**Alternatives**

Some alternative methods for selecting elements in JavaScript include:

* `document.querySelectorAll()`: Returns an HTMLCollection containing all matching elements, similar to getElementsByClassName().
* `document.querySelectorAll()`: Returns a NodeList containing all matches, which can be converted to an array-like object.
* Using `RegExp` objects and string manipulation to select elements based on patterns.

However, these alternatives might not offer significant performance benefits over the two methods being compared in this benchmark.

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 3 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.114 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 89 on Mac OS X 10.15.7

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Test name	Executions per second
query	1663465.4 Ops/sec
id	1824503.0 Ops/sec

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Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 27 days ago):