Benchmark: find vs. direct selection

HTML Preparation code:

<div class="wrapper">
  <div class="find-this-element"></div>
</div>
<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.js'></script>

Tests:

find
$('.wrapper').find('.find-this-element');
direct selector
$('.wrapper .find-this-element');

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
find
direct selector

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 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/78.0.3904.108 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 78 on Mac OS X 10.15.1

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Test name	Executions per second
find	346641.6 Ops/sec
direct selector	362663.4 Ops/sec

find vs. direct selection (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: find vs direct selector

Created: 4 years ago by: Guest

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find

direct selector

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A