Run results for: jQuery 3.5 versus 3.1

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/96.0.4664.76 Whale/3.12.129.34 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 96

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
3.1	36048.1 Ops/sec
3.5	33335.7 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.1.0.min.js"></script>
<script>
  var $jq31 = $.noConflict(true);
</script>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.5.0.min.js"></script>
<script>
  var $jq35 = $.noConflict(true);
</script>
<div>
  <ul id="menu">
    <li class="menu-item">1</li>
    <li class="menu-item">2</li>
    <li class="menu-item">3</li>
    <li class="menu-item">4</li>  
  </ul>
</div>

Script Preparation code:

function tests($) {
    $(".menu-item").eq(2).closest("ul").css({
      "background-color": "red"
    }).parent().css({
      "border": "1px solid blue"
    }).append($("<p></p>").text("Text.").css({
      "background-color": "green"
    })).end().end().remove();
  console.log('tests' + $);
}

Tests:

3.1
tests($jq31);
3.5
tests($jq35);