Run results for: find vs. direct selection

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/78.0.3904.108 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 78

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.1

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
find	346641.6 Ops/sec
direct selector	362663.4 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div class="wrapper">
  <div class="find-this-element"></div>
</div>
<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.js'></script>

Tests:

find
$('.wrapper').find('.find-this-element');
direct selector
$('.wrapper .find-this-element');

Run results for: find vs. direct selection

find

direct selector