Run results for: External eq() vs Internal

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/53.0.2785.122 Safari/537.36 Vivaldi/1.4.589.29

Browser: Chrome 53

Operating system: Windows 7

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 7 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Internal eq()	37832.3 Ops/sec
External eq()	84157.5 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="test">
  <div class="item"></div>
  <div class="item"></div>
  <div class="item"></div>
</div>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.1.0/jquery.min.js"></script>

Tests:

Internal eq()
jQuery('#test').find('item:eq(1)');
External eq()
jQuery('#test').find('item').eq(1);

Run results for: External eq() vs Internal

Testing performance if the eq() selector in JS

Internal eq()

External eq()