Run results for: JS / jQuery selector variables

Run details:

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: Chrome 104

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
#A	10884934.0 Ops/sec
#B	1279581.2 Ops/sec
#C	10978406.0 Ops/sec
#D	5281403.0 Ops/sec
#E	19082512.0 Ops/sec
#F	19034860.0 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.1.0/jquery.min.js"></script>

AخA
 
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.1.0/jquery.min.js"></script>

Script Preparation code:

$body = $('body');
bodyEl = document.body;

var app = {};
app.getBody = function() {
  return $body;
}
app.getBody2 = function() {
  return $('body');
}

​x
 
$body = $('body');bodyEl = document.body;​var app = {};app.getBody = function() {  return $body;}app.getBody2 = function() {  return $('body');}

Tests:

#A
$body
$body
#B
$('body')
$('body')
#C
bodyEl
bodyEl
#D
document.body
document.body
#E
app.getBody
app.getBody
#F
app.getBody2
app.getBody2

Run results for: JS / jQuery selector variables

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