Benchmark: JQuery: find vs id selector

HTML Preparation code:

<a id="parent" >
  <span id="child">Need span</span>
  <svg class="icon md-16 icon-shevron-right text-muted"></svg>
</a>
<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.js'></script>

Script Preparation code:

var $element = $("#parent");

Tests:

find with tag selector
$element.find("span");
find with id
$("#child");

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
find with tag selector
find with id

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: one month ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 123 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
find with tag selector	874167.7 Ops/sec
find with id	1453317.0 Ops/sec

JQuery: find vs id selector (version: 0)

Test which solution find quicker element

Comparing performance of: find with tag selector vs find with id

Created: 3 years ago by: Guest

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find with tag selector

find with id

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A