Run results for: jQuery versions

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/117.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 117

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
Test jQuery 1.7.1	16047.6 Ops/sec
Test jQuery 1.11.3	17484.8 Ops/sec
Test jQuery 1.12.4	16575.9 Ops/sec
Test jQuery 2.2.4	20133.5 Ops/sec
Test jQuery 3.3.1	24743.3 Ops/sec
Test jQuery 3.4.1	22181.0 Ops/sec
Test jQuery 3.6.0	19311.5 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src='https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js'></script>
<script>
  var $jq171 = $.noConflict(true);
</script>
<script src='https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.3/jquery.min.js'></script>
<script>
  var $jq1113 = $.noConflict(true);
</script>
<script src='https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.12.4/jquery.min.js'></script>
<script>
  var $jq1124 = $.noConflict(true);
</script>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.2.4/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
  var $jq224 = $.noConflict(true);
</script>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
  var $jq331 = $.noConflict(true);
</script>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.1.min.js"></script>
<script>
  var $jq341 = $.noConflict(true);
</script>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.6.0.min.js"></script>
<script>
  var $jq360 = $.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:

Test jQuery 1.7.1
tests($jq171);
Test jQuery 1.11.3
tests($jq1113);
Test jQuery 1.12.4
tests($jq1124);
Test jQuery 2.2.4
tests($jq224);
Test jQuery 3.3.1
tests($jq331);
Test jQuery 3.4.1
tests($jq341);
Test jQuery 3.6.0
tests($jq360);

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