Benchmark: jQuery parents() vs closest()

HTML Preparation code:

<div class="root">
    <div class="parent parent-1">
        <div class="parent parent-2">
            <div class="parent parent-3">
                <div class="child">
                    Child
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>
<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.js'></script>

Script Preparation code:

$('.child').parents('.root').eq(0);

Tests:

.parents(:selector).first();
$('.child').parents('.parent').first();
.closest(:selector);
$('.child').closest('.parent').first();

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
.parents(:selector).first();
.closest(:selector);

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: one month ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:124.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/124.0

Browser/OS: Firefox 124 on Ubuntu

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Test name	Executions per second
.parents(:selector).first();	335391.1 Ops/sec
.closest(:selector);	257993.8 Ops/sec

jQuery parents() vs closest() (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: .parents(:selector).first(); vs .closest(:selector);

Created: 2 years ago by: Guest

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.parents(:selector).first();

.closest(:selector);

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A