Run results for: jQuery parents() vs closest()

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 114

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
.parents(:selector).first();	603417.9 Ops/sec
.closest(:selector);	735141.1 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div class="root">
    <div class="parent parent-1">
        <div class="parent parent-2">
            <div class="parent parent-3">
                <div class="child">
                    Child
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>
<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.js'></script>

Script Preparation code:

$('.child').parents('.root').eq(0);

Tests:

.parents(:selector).first();
$('.child').parents('.parent').first();
.closest(:selector);
$('.child').closest('.parent').first();

Run results for: jQuery parents() vs closest()

.parents(:selector).first();

.closest(:selector);