Benchmark: getElementById, querySelector, querySelectorAll, and salt.js routine

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="test">Test</div>

Script Preparation code:

window.$ = function(s) {
    return document[{
        '#': 'getElementById',
        '.': 'getElementsByClassName',
        '@': 'getElementsByName',
        '=': 'getElementsByTagName'}[s[0]]
        || 'querySelectorAll'](s.slice(1))
};

Tests:

getElementById
document.getElementById("test");
querySelector
document.querySelector("#test")
querySelectorAll
document.querySelectorAll("#test")
salt.js $ routine
$('#test');

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
getElementById
querySelector
querySelectorAll
salt.js $ routine

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) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.66 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 87 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
getElementById	1948981.0 Ops/sec
querySelector	1493411.0 Ops/sec
querySelectorAll	677368.0 Ops/sec
salt.js $ routine	1095294.0 Ops/sec

getElementById, querySelector, querySelectorAll, and salt.js routine (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: getElementById vs querySelector vs querySelectorAll vs salt.js $ routine

Created: 3 years ago by: Guest

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getElementById

querySelector

querySelectorAll

salt.js $ routine

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A