Benchmark: jQuery parents() vs closest() speed performance comparison

HTML Preparation code:

<ul>
	<li class="current">1</li>
	<li>2</li>
	<li>3</li>	   
</ul>

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>

Script Preparation code:

item = $('.current');

Tests:

Parents
console.log(item.parents('ul'));
Closest
console.log(item.closest('ul'));

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
Parents
Closest

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

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

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/97.0.4692.99 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 97 on Linux

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Test name	Executions per second
Parents	38119.8 Ops/sec
Closest	43011.4 Ops/sec

jQuery parents() vs closest() speed performance comparison (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: Parent vs Closest

Comparing performance of: Parents vs Closest

Created: 2 years ago by: Guest

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Parents

Closest

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A