Run results for: JS / jQuery selector variables

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_4) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/11.1 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 11

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.13.4

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 6 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
#A	4200832.0 Ops/sec
#B	576341.7 Ops/sec
#C	3975915.0 Ops/sec
#D	2134957.0 Ops/sec
#E	5884056.0 Ops/sec
#F	6115644.0 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.1.0/jquery.min.js"></script>

Script Preparation code:

$body = $('body');
bodyEl = document.body;

var app = {};
app.getBody = function() {
  return $body;
}
app.getBody2 = function() {
  return $('body');
}

Tests:

#A
$body
#B
$('body')
#C
bodyEl
#D
document.body
#E
app.getBody
#F
app.getBody2

Run results for: JS / jQuery selector variables

#A

#B

#C

#D

#E

#F