Run results for: Direct access item vs jquery based access

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.88 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 79

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.14.6

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Direct access	101862.0 Ops/sec
Redundant jQuery	37398.0 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="hello"></div>
<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.js'></script>

Tests:

Direct access
var t = $("#hello") t.attr("data-test", "asdf1"); t.attr("data-test", "asdf2"); t.attr("data-test", "asdf3"); t.attr("data-test", "asdf4"); t.attr("data-test", "asdf5"); t.attr("data-test", "asdf6"); t.attr("data-test", "asdf7"); t.attr("data-test", "asdf8"); t.attr("data-test", "asdf9"); t.attr("data-test", "asdf10");
Redundant jQuery
var t = $("#hello") $(t).attr("data-test", "asdf1"); $(t).attr("data-test", "asdf2"); $(t).attr("data-test", "asdf3"); $(t).attr("data-test", "asdf4"); $(t).attr("data-test", "asdf5"); $(t).attr("data-test", "asdf6"); $(t).attr("data-test", "asdf7"); $(t).attr("data-test", "asdf8"); $(t).attr("data-test", "asdf9"); $(t).attr("data-test", "asdf10");