Benchmark: vanilla vs jquery speed - MeasureThat.net

HTML Preparation code:

<div class="test"></div>
<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.js'></script>

Tests:

vanilla add class
document.querySelector(".test").classList.add("next-class");
jquery add class
$(document).find(".test").addClass("next-class");
vanilla find element
document.querySelector(".test");
jquery find element
$(document).find(".test");

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
vanilla add class
jquery add class
vanilla find element
jquery find element

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 4 months ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.4.1 Safari/605.1.15

Browser/OS: Safari 17 on Mac OS X 10.15.7

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Test name	Executions per second
vanilla add class	4472901.0 Ops/sec
jquery add class	1500175.0 Ops/sec
vanilla find element	7743101.0 Ops/sec
jquery find element	2934391.0 Ops/sec