Benchmark: Query Selector v Sizzle

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.2.4/jquery.min.js"></script>

<div id="test" class="m">a</div>
<div class="m">b</div>

Script Preparation code:

var select = function(selector) {
	if (!selector) return null
	
	if (selector.charAt(0) == '#') {
		return document.querySelector(selector)
	} else {
		var result = document.querySelectorAll(selector)
		switch (result.length) {
			case 0:
				return null
			case 1:
				return result[0]
			default:
				return result
		}
	}
}

Tests:

qs ID
select('#test')
qs Class
select('.m')
sizzle ID
$('#test')
sizzle Class
$('.m')

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
qs ID
qs Class
sizzle ID
sizzle Class

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 2 months ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:122.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/122.0

Browser/OS: Firefox 122 on Linux

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Test name	Executions per second
qs ID	5299816.0 Ops/sec
qs Class	2351663.0 Ops/sec
sizzle ID	8877340.0 Ops/sec
sizzle Class	2408327.0 Ops/sec

Query Selector v Sizzle (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: qs ID vs qs Class vs sizzle ID vs sizzle Class

Created: 7 years ago by: Guest

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qs ID

qs Class

sizzle ID

sizzle Class

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A