Benchmark: multiple querySelector vs new variable

HTML Preparation code:


<div id='main'>
<div id='inner'>
<a id='' href='#' />
</div>
</div>

<div id='insert'></div>

Tests:

multiple querySelector
const main = document.querySelector('div#main'); const inner = main.querySelector('div#inner'); document.querySelector('div#insert').append(inner);
new variable
const main = document.querySelector('div#main'); document.querySelector('div#insert').append(main.querySelector('div#inner'));

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Previous results

Test case name	Result
multiple querySelector
new variable

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Latest run results:

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

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 104 on Linux

Test name	Executions per second
multiple querySelector	71972.3 Ops/sec
new variable	563973.4 Ops/sec

multiple querySelector vs new variable (version: 0)