Run results for: jQuery.contains() vs. Node.contains() vs reverse checking

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/107.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 107

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
jQuery.contains()	1111601.0 Ops/sec
Node.contains()	2114198.0 Ops/sec
reverse	616078.2 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script
  src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.1.min.js"
  integrity="sha256-CSXorXvZcTkaix6Yvo6HppcZGetbYMGWSFlBw8HfCJo="
  crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

<div id="outer">
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div id="inner">

</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>


<div id="outer2">
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div id="inner2">

</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
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</div>
</div>
</div>

Script Preparation code:

var inner = document.getElementById("inner");
var outer = document.getElementById("outer");
var inner2 = document.getElementById("inner2");
var outer2 = document.getElementById("outer2");

Tests:

jQuery.contains()
var x = jQuery.contains(outer, inner) var y = jQuery.contains(outer, inner2) var z = jQuery.contains(outer2, inner) var a = jQuery.contains(outer2, inner2)
Node.contains()
var x = outer.contains(inner) var y = outer.contains(inner2) var z = outer2.contains(inner) var a = outer2.contains(inner2)
reverse
function reverseQuerySelector(element, match = null) { if (element === document.body) { return null; } while (true) { if (element === match) { return element; } if (element.parentNode) { element = element.parentNode; if ( element === document.body ) { return null; } } else { return null; } } } var x = reverseQuerySelector(outer, inner); var y = reverseQuerySelector(outer, inner2); var z = reverseQuerySelector(outer2, inner); var a = reverseQuerySelector(outer2, inner2);