Benchmark: JQuery: compare approaches for get of children

HTML Preparation code:

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

Tests:

child selector
let $options = $("#items > option");
find function
let $options = $("#items").find("option");
children function
let $options = $("#items").children();

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
child selector
find function
children function

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 3 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

Browser/OS: Firefox 78 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
child selector	122052.4 Ops/sec
find function	213924.4 Ops/sec
children function	268998.0 Ops/sec

JQuery: compare approaches for get of children (version: 0)

Find the best approach for getting options

Comparing performance of: child selector vs find function vs children function

Created: 3 years ago by: Registered User

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child selector

find function

children function

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A