Benchmark: TreeWalker/ filter vs querySelectorAll vs NodeIterator

HTML Preparation code:

<!-- article out start -->
<article>
  <!-- article in start -->
  <h1>Lorem ipsum</h1>
  <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Cumque, nostrum.</p>
  <!-- article in end -->
</article>
<!-- article out end -->

<!-- article out start -->
<article>
  <!-- article in start -->
  <h1>Lorem ipsum</h1>
  <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Cumque, nostrum.</p>
  <!-- article in end -->
</article>
<!-- article out end -->

<!-- article out start -->
<article>
  <!-- article in start -->
  <h1>Lorem ipsum</h1>
  <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Cumque, nostrum.</p>
  <!-- article in end -->
</article>
<!-- article out end -->

Tests:

TreeWalker
const walker = document.createTreeWalker( document.body, NodeFilter.SHOW_ELEMENT, function(node) { return node.tagName == "H1" ? NodeFilter.FILTER_ACCEPT : NodeFilter.FILTER_SKIP; }, false ); for (let node = walker.nextNode(), i = 0; node; i++, node= walker.nextNode() ) { node.className = 'classy' ; }
querySelectorAll
const elements = Array.from(document.body.querySelectorAll('h1')) for(let el of elements){el.className = 'classy'}
NodeIterator
const walker = document.createNodeIterator( document.body, NodeFilter.SHOW_ELEMENT, function(node) { return node.tagName == "H1" ? NodeFilter.FILTER_ACCEPT : NodeFilter.FILTER_SKIP; }, false ); for (let node = walker.nextNode(), i = 0; node; i++, node= walker.nextNode() ) { node.className = 'classy' ; }

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
TreeWalker
querySelectorAll
NodeIterator

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 17 days ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:124.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/124.0

Browser/OS: Firefox 124 on Mac OS X 10.15

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Test name	Executions per second
TreeWalker	306645.8 Ops/sec
querySelectorAll	1773503.0 Ops/sec
NodeIterator	3808.5 Ops/sec

TreeWalker/ filter vs querySelectorAll vs NodeIterator (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: TreeWalker vs querySelectorAll vs NodeIterator

Created: 2 years ago by: Guest

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TreeWalker

querySelectorAll

NodeIterator

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A