Run results for: $.each vs for loop

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.95 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 55

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.11.6

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 7 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
$.each	1893.3 Ops/sec
for loop	1612.4 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<select id="number"></select>

Script Preparation code:

function createOptions(number) {
  var options = [];

  for (var i = 0; i < number; i++) {
    var option = '<option value="' + i + '">Option ' + i + '</option>';
    options.push(option);
  }
  
  $('#number').append(options);
}

createOptions(1000);

var $options = $('#number').find('option');

Tests:

$.each
$options.each(function (index) { var $option = $(this); });
for loop
for (var i = 0, option; option = $options[i]; i++) { var $option = $(option); }