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Run results for: jQuery eq vs access by index

https://api.jquery.com/eq/ vs https://api.jquery.com/get/

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Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.116 Safari/537.36
Chrome 52
Windows 7
Other
8 years ago
Test name Executions per second
Use eq 238168.1 Ops/sec
Use get 414402.5 Ops/sec
Use array like access 420776.0 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
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<div id="testRoot">
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  <span>1</span>
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  <span>1</span>
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  <span>1</span>
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  <span>1</span>
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  <span>1</span>
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  <span>1</span>
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  <span>1</span>
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</div>
Script Preparation code:
 
var elements = $("#testRoot span");
var len = elements.length;
Tests:

  • Use eq

     
    for (var i = 0; i < len; i++){
      var t = elements.eq(i).textContent;
    }

  • Use get

     
    for (var i = 0; i < len; i++){
      var t = elements.get(i).textContent;
    }

  • Use array like access

     
    for (var i = 0; i < len; i++){
      var t = elements[i].textContent;
    }