Benchmark: jquery test 3 - MeasureThat.net

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-2.2.4.min.js"></script>

Tests:

noob
var $node = $('<div class="feather-video-slide">');
clever
var $node = $('<div class="feather-video-slide"></div>');
raw
var div = document.createElement('div'); div.setAttribute('class', 'feather-video-slide'); var $node = $(div);

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
noob
clever
raw

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated one month ago):

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**What is being tested?**

The provided JSON represents a benchmark test case that measures the performance difference between three approaches to create a jQuery-wrapped HTML element:

1. **Using jQuery's `$.html()` method**: The "noob" test case uses jQuery's `$.html()` method to set the HTML content of an empty element.
2. **Using a custom wrapper function**: The "clever" test case creates a custom wrapper function using a simple string concatenation approach.
3. **Using `document.createElement` and then wrapping with jQuery**: The "raw" test case uses `document.createElement`, sets its attributes, and then wraps the resulting element with jQuery.

**Options being compared**

The three approaches are compared to measure their performance difference:

* Approach 1: Using jQuery's `.html()` method
* Approach 2: Creating a custom wrapper function using string concatenation
* Approach 3: Using `document.createElement` followed by wrapping with jQuery

**Pros and Cons of each approach**

1. **Approach 1: Using jQuery's `.html()` method**
	* Pros:
		+ Simple and concise syntax.
		+ Faster, as it leverages jQuery's optimized HTML parsing and manipulation logic.
	* Cons:
		+ Requires jQuery to be included in the test environment.
2. **Approach 2: Creating a custom wrapper function**
	* Pros:
		+ No dependencies on external libraries like jQuery.
		+ Can potentially be more portable across different environments.
	* Cons:
		+ Requires manual string concatenation, which can lead to slower performance due to parsing and formatting overhead.
3. **Approach 3: Using `document.createElement` followed by wrapping with jQuery**
	* Pros:
		+ Allows for better control over the element's attributes and CSS styles.
	* Cons:
		+ Requires manual creation of an element using `document.createElement`, which can lead to slower performance due to the DOM manipulation overhead.

**Library usage**

The "clever" test case uses a custom wrapper function, but it does not include any external libraries. However, since jQuery is used in other test cases, it's likely that MeasureThat.net provides a way for users to add or exclude libraries from their benchmark tests.

**Special JavaScript features or syntax**

There are no special JavaScript features or syntax mentioned in the provided JSON data. The code snippets focus on demonstrating different approaches to creating a wrapped element using jQuery.

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 7 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/57.0.2987.37 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 57 on Mac OS X 10.10.5

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Test name	Executions per second
noob	11164.0 Ops/sec
clever	12986.2 Ops/sec
raw	170239.2 Ops/sec

Related benchmarks:

jquery test 3 (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: noob vs clever vs raw

Created: 7 years ago by: Guest

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noob

clever

raw

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated one month ago):