Run results for: jquery multi-selector vs several selectors

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/53.0.2785.116 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 53

Operating system: Windows 7

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 8 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
multi-selector	340692.5 Ops/sec
several selectors	94982.1 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script
			  src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.1.0.js"
			  integrity="sha256-slogkvB1K3VOkzAI8QITxV3VzpOnkeNVsKvtkYLMjfk="
			  crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

Script Preparation code:

var element = $('<div class="foo"><span><p>Random things to select on</p></span></div>');

Tests:

multi-selector
element.is('.foo, .baz, .bar, .bang');
several selectors
element.is('.foo'); element.is('.bar'); element.is('.baz'); element.is('.bang');