Benchmark: jquery 3.6.0 - MeasureThat.net

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.6.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div class="test">blah</div>
<div class="#test">blah</div>

Tests:

Vanilla JS ID test
document.querySelector('#test').classList.add('fuck');
Vanilla JS Class test
document.querySelector('.test').classList.add('fuck');
jQuery ID Test
$('#test').addClass('fuck');
jQuery Class Test
$('.test').addClass('fuck');

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
Vanilla JS ID test
Vanilla JS Class test
jQuery ID Test
jQuery Class Test

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 26 days ago):

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**Benchmark Overview**

MeasureThat.net is a website that allows users to create and run JavaScript microbenchmarks. The provided JSON data represents two benchmark definitions: one for jQuery 3.6.0 and four individual test cases.

**Benchmark Definition (jQuery 3.6.0)**

The provided JSON defines a benchmark setup with the following elements:

* A script tag that loads the jQuery 3.6.0 library from an external URL.
* An HTML string that contains two div elements: one with the class "test" and another with the ID "#test".

This setup is used to execute the individual test cases, allowing users to compare the performance of different JavaScript approaches.

**Individual Test Cases**

The four individual test cases are:

1. **Vanilla JS ID test**: This test case uses Vanilla JavaScript (i.e., without any libraries or frameworks) to select an element by its ID and add a class.
2. **Vanilla JS Class test**: This test case also uses Vanilla JavaScript, but this time it selects an element by its class name and adds a class.
3. **jQuery ID Test**: This test case uses jQuery to select the element with the ID "#test" and add a class.
4. **jQuery Class Test**: Similar to the previous test case, this one uses jQuery to select the element with the class "test" and add a class.

**Comparison of Options**

The provided benchmark setup allows users to compare different approaches for executing these test cases:

* **Vanilla JS ID and Class tests**: These tests use native JavaScript functionality without any libraries or frameworks. The performance of this approach is likely optimal, but it may not be representative of real-world scenarios where jQuery is used.
* **jQuery ID and Class tests**: These tests use the jQuery library to execute the test cases. This allows users to compare the performance of using a popular JavaScript framework versus native JavaScript.

**Pros and Cons**

Here are some pros and cons of each approach:

* **Vanilla JS ID and Class tests**:
	+ Pros: Fast execution, optimal for native JavaScript.
	+ Cons: May not be representative of real-world scenarios where jQuery is used.
* **jQuery ID and Class tests**:
	+ Pros: More representative of real-world scenarios where jQuery is used.
	+ Cons: May introduce additional overhead due to the use of a library.

**Library (jQuery)**

The provided JSON mentions that jQuery 3.6.0 is used in two of the test cases. jQuery is a popular JavaScript framework that provides a lot of functionality for DOM manipulation, event handling, and more. In this context, it's likely being used to simplify the execution of the test cases by providing a convenient API for working with elements.

**Special JS Features or Syntax**

None of the provided benchmark setups use any special JavaScript features or syntax beyond what is typically available in modern browsers.

**Other Alternatives**

There are other alternatives to using MeasureThat.net, such as:

* **Benchmarking libraries**: There are several benchmarking libraries available for JavaScript, such as Benchmark.js, which provide a way to measure the performance of specific code snippets.
* **Custom benchmark scripts**: Users can write their own custom benchmark scripts using a framework like Jest or Mocha.
* **Other online platforms**: There are other online platforms that offer similar benchmarking capabilities, such as JSPerf.

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 2 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:95.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/95.0

Browser/OS: Firefox 95 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
Vanilla JS ID test	0.0 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS Class test	1489637.9 Ops/sec
jQuery ID Test	2988586.5 Ops/sec
jQuery Class Test	436530.5 Ops/sec

Related benchmarks:

jquery 3.6.0 (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: Vanilla JS ID test vs Vanilla JS Class test vs jQuery ID Test vs jQuery Class Test

Created: 2 years ago by: Guest

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Vanilla JS ID test

Vanilla JS Class test

jQuery ID Test

jQuery Class Test

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 26 days ago):