Run results for: jQuery vs Vanilla JS Speed Test - CNC

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:69.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/69.0

Browser: Firefox 69

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.13

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
jQuery	3.2 Ops/sec
VanillaJS	23.4 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.slim.min.js"></script>
<div id="target">Hello World</div>

Tests:

jQuery
for(let i = 0; i < 10000; i++) { $('#target').append($('<div />').addClass('test-div')); }
VanillaJS
for(let i = 0; i < 10000; i++) { const e = document.createElement('div'); e.className = 'test-div'; document.getElementById('target').appendChild(e); }