Run results for: jQuery eq vs access by index

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko

Browser: IE 11

Operating system: Windows 7

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 7 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Use eq	303173.3 Ops/sec
Use get	574176.9 Ops/sec
Use array like access	490765.8 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="testRoot">
  <span>1</span>
  <span>1</span>
  <span>1</span>
  <span>1</span>
  <span>1</span>
  <span>1</span>
  <span>1</span>
</div>

Script Preparation code:

var elements = $("#testRoot span");
var len = elements.length;

Tests:

Use eq
for (var i = 0; i < len; i++){ var t = elements.eq(i).textContent; }
Use get
for (var i = 0; i < len; i++){ var t = elements.get(i).textContent; }
Use array like access
for (var i = 0; i < len; i++){ var t = elements[i].textContent; }

Run results for: jQuery eq vs access by index

https://api.jquery.com/eq/ vs https://api.jquery.com/get/

Use eq

Use get

Use array like access