Run results for: While loop vs Closest

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_4_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.4.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 17

Operating system: iOS 17.4.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 5 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
while	468840.8 Ops/sec
closest	480012.4 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<style type="text/css">
.hidden {
display: none;
}
</style>
<div class="visible">
<div class="hidden">
<div class="hidden">
<div class="hidden hidden-last"></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
      

      <script>

        Benchmark.prototype.setup = function() {

          
  var $element = $('.hidden-last');

        
  };


      
</script>

Tests:

while
while ($element.is(":hidden")) { $element = $element.parent(); }
closest
$element = $element.closest(':visible')

Run results for: While loop vs Closest

while

closest