Benchmark: Vanilla vs Cash vs jQuery vs Sprint Library Speed Test

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.slim.min.js"><script>
<script>jQuery.noConflict();</script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/sprint/0.9.2/sprint.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/cash/6.0.1/cash.min.js"></script>
<div id="foo">Hello World</div>

Tests:

Vanilla Get ID
var text = document.getElementById("foo");
Vanilla Get Text
var text = document.getElementById("foo").textContent;
Vanilla Get HTML
var text = document.getElementById("foo").innerHTML;
Cash Get ID
var text = $("#foo");
Cash Get Text
var text = $("#foo").text();
Cash Get HTML
var text = $("#foo").html();
jQuery Get ID
var text = jQuery("#foo");
jQuery Get Text
var text = jQuery("#foo").text();
jQuery Get HTML
var text = jQuery("#foo").html();
Sprint Get ID
var text = Sprint("#foo");
Sprint Get Text
var text = Sprint("#foo").text();
Sprint Get HTML
var text = Sprint("#foo").html();

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
Vanilla Get ID
Vanilla Get Text
Vanilla Get HTML
Cash Get ID
Cash Get Text
Cash Get HTML
jQuery Get ID
jQuery Get Text
jQuery Get HTML
Sprint Get ID
Sprint Get Text
Sprint Get HTML

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 26 days ago):

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Let's dive into the explanation of what's being tested in this benchmark.

**Benchmark Definition**

The benchmark is designed to compare the execution speeds of four JavaScript libraries: Vanilla (native JavaScript), Cash, jQuery, and Sprint. Each library is used to retrieve different properties from an HTML element with the id "foo".

**Options Compared**

The following options are compared:

1. **Native JavaScript (Vanilla)**: Using native JavaScript functions like `document.getElementById()` or `element.getPropertyValue()`.
2. **Cash**: A micro-optimization library that provides a simple and efficient way to access DOM elements.
3. **jQuery**: A popular JavaScript library that provides an easy-to-use API for working with the DOM.
4. **Sprint**: Another micro-optimization library that aims to provide fast and efficient DOM access.

**Test Cases**

Each test case retrieves different properties from the HTML element:

1. `id` property
2. `innerHTML` property
3. `textContent` property

The benchmark measures the execution speed of each library for each test case, providing a detailed comparison of their performance.

**Interpretation**

The results suggest that Cash and Sprint are significantly faster than jQuery and Vanilla in terms of execution speed. This is likely due to their optimized implementations and focus on micro-optimizations.

Cash appears to be the fastest overall, followed closely by Sprint. jQuery falls in between, with Vanilla being the slowest.

Keep in mind that these results may vary depending on the specific use case and the environment in which the benchmark is run.

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 2 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 104 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
Vanilla Get ID	4127122.8 Ops/sec
Vanilla Get Text	2951148.0 Ops/sec
Vanilla Get HTML	2799299.5 Ops/sec
Cash Get ID	2444312.2 Ops/sec
Cash Get Text	1901792.2 Ops/sec
Cash Get HTML	1927019.2 Ops/sec
jQuery Get ID	2125095.0 Ops/sec
jQuery Get Text	1399042.0 Ops/sec
jQuery Get HTML	1645996.8 Ops/sec
Sprint Get ID	3259106.2 Ops/sec
Sprint Get Text	2055577.6 Ops/sec
Sprint Get HTML	2162688.2 Ops/sec

Related benchmarks:

Vanilla vs Cash vs jQuery vs Sprint Library Speed Test (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: Vanilla Get ID vs Vanilla Get Text vs Vanilla Get HTML vs Cash Get ID vs Cash Get Text vs Cash Get HTML vs jQuery Get ID vs jQuery Get Text vs jQuery Get HTML vs Sprint Get ID vs Sprint Get Text vs Sprint Get HTML

Created: 4 years ago by: Guest

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Vanilla Get ID

Vanilla Get Text

Vanilla Get HTML

Cash Get ID

Cash Get Text

Cash Get HTML

jQuery Get ID

jQuery Get Text

jQuery Get HTML

Sprint Get ID

Sprint Get Text

Sprint Get HTML

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 26 days ago):