Benchmark: Test Nick1 - MeasureThat.net

HTML Preparation code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="testElement"></div>

Tests:

jQuery
jQuery('body').data('default-currency');
Vanilla JS
document.body.getAttribute('data-default-currency');

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
jQuery
Vanilla JS

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 28 days ago):

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Let's break down the provided benchmark and its components.

**Benchmark Overview**

The benchmark, named "Test Nick1", compares the speed of retrieving an element by its ID using jQuery versus Vanilla JavaScript. The benchmark tests two individual test cases:

1. `jQuery('body').data('default-currency');`
2. `document.body.getAttribute('data-default-currency');`

These test cases are used to measure the performance difference between using a library (jQuery) and writing native code (Vanilla JavaScript).

**Options Compared**

The benchmark compares two approaches:

1. **jQuery**: A popular JavaScript library that provides an easy-to-use API for DOM manipulation and other tasks.
2. **Vanilla JavaScript**: The standard, built-in JavaScript language without any libraries or frameworks.

**Pros and Cons of Each Approach:**

* **jQuery**:
	+ Pros:
		- Easy to use and intuitive API
		- Fast and efficient under the hood
		- Well-maintained and widely adopted community
	+ Cons:
		- Adds overhead due to library size and complexity
		- May not be suitable for small projects or performance-critical code
* **Vanilla JavaScript**:
	+ Pros:
		- No additional overhead from a library
		- Control over the execution flow and optimization
		- Suitable for small projects or performance-critical code
	+ Cons:
		- Requires more effort to write efficient and readable code
		- May not be as easy to learn for beginners

**Library Used (jQuery)**

jQuery is a JavaScript library that provides an easy-to-use API for DOM manipulation, event handling, and other tasks. In this benchmark, jQuery is used to retrieve the `data-default-currency` attribute from the `body` element.

**Special JS Feature/Syntax**

The benchmark uses the `.data()` method in jQuery, which is a convenient way to store data associated with an HTML element. This feature allows developers to easily attach arbitrary data to elements without modifying their markup.

**Test Case and Execution**

Each test case measures the execution time of retrieving the `data-default-currency` attribute using either jQuery or Vanilla JavaScript.

**Other Alternatives**

There are other approaches to retrieve an element by its ID, such as:

1. Using the `getElementById()` method on the document object.
2. Using a CSS selector (e.g., `#testElement`.
3. Using a library like React or Angular for DOM manipulation.

These alternatives may have their own trade-offs and use cases, but they are not directly compared in this benchmark.

In summary, this benchmark provides a simple yet informative comparison between using jQuery and Vanilla JavaScript to retrieve an element by its ID. The results can help developers understand the performance characteristics of each approach and make informed decisions about which library or method to use for their specific use case.

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 5 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.110 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 70 on Windows 8.1

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Test name	Executions per second
jQuery	55429.4 Ops/sec
Vanilla JS	1073291.6 Ops/sec

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jQuery

Vanilla JS

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 28 days ago):