Run results for: selectoptions

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:66.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/66.0

Browser: Firefox 66

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
childrenfirst	320166.6 Ops/sec
directfirst	437609.9 Ops/sec
queryfirst	59567.3 Ops/sec
findfirst	609630.0 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div>
  <input type="text" value=""/>
  <select id="sampleselect">
    <option value="0">0</option>
    <option value="1">1</option>
    <option value="2">2</option>
    <option value="3">3</option>
  </select>
</div>
<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.js'></script>

Tests:

childrenfirst
$('#sampleselect').children('option').first()
directfirst
$('#sampleselect > option').first()
queryfirst
$('#sampleselect > option:first')
findfirst
$('#sampleselect').find('option').first()

Run results for: selectoptions

selectoptions

childrenfirst

directfirst

queryfirst

findfirst