Benchmark: JQuery: compare approaches for getting first option

HTML Preparation code:

<select id="action">
  <option>1</option>
  <option>2</option>
  <option>3</option>
  <option>4</option>
  <option>5</option>
  <option>6</option>
  <option>7</option>
  <option>8</option>
  <option>9</option>
  <option>10</option>
</select>
<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.js'></script>

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests:

using first child selector
$element.find("option:first-child");
using nth child
$element.find("option:nth-child(1)");
using first function
$element.find("option").first();

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
using first child selector
using nth child
using first function

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

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

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:92.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/92.0

Browser/OS: Firefox 92 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
using first child selector	117129.7 Ops/sec
using nth child	105615.3 Ops/sec
using first function	224634.9 Ops/sec

JQuery: compare approaches for getting first option (version: 0)

compare which approach is better for getting first option from select

Comparing performance of: using first child selector vs using nth child vs using first function

Created: 3 years ago by: Registered User

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using first child selector

using nth child

using first function

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A