Benchmark: Class vs Attribute selector

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Tests:

Class
$('m')
Attribute
$('[data-m]')

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
Class
Attribute

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

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

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.67 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 70 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
Class	506047.8 Ops/sec
Attribute	34106.0 Ops/sec

Class vs Attribute selector (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: Class vs Attribute

Created: 4 years ago by: Guest

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Class

Attribute

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A