Run results for: find("input") vs find("[type='checkbox']")

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.131 Safari/537.36 OPR/78.0.4093.147

Browser: Opera 78

Operating system: Windows 7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
find by input	239056.3 Ops/sec
find by attribute value	145172.7 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<form id="form">
  <input type="checkbox"/>
  <input type="checkbox"/>
  <input type="checkbox"/>
  <input type="checkbox"/>
  <input type="checkbox"/>
  <input type="checkbox"/>
  <input type="checkbox"/>
  <input type="checkbox"/>
  <input type="checkbox"/>
  <input type="checkbox"/>
</form>
<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.js'></script>

Script Preparation code:

var $form = $("#form");

Tests:

find by input
$form.find("input");
find by attribute value
$form.find("[type='checbox']");

Run results for: find("input") vs find("[type='checkbox']")

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find by input

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