Run results for: jquery .each vs .find attribute

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/72.0.3626.109 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 72

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.12.6

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
each	61714.2 Ops/sec
find	13210.5 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<ul id="testme">
  <li value="1">
  </li>
  <li value="12">
  </li>
  <li value="122">
  </li>
  <li value="1222">
  </li>
  <li value="12222">
  </li>
  <li value="122222">
  </li>
  <li value="1222222">
  </li>
  <li value="12222222">
  </li>
  <li value="122222222">
  </li>
  <li value="1222222222">
  </li>
  <li value="12222222222">
  </li>
  <li value="20">
  </li>
</ul>
<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.js'></script>

Script Preparation code:

var MyValue = "20";

Tests:

each
$("#testme li").each(function() { if ($(this).value == MyValue) { console.log("true"); } });
find
$("#testme").find("[value=" + MyValue + "]").each(function() { console.log("true"); });

Run results for: jquery .each vs .find attribute

Search an element taking into account one of its attributes using an each loop vs a find [attribute]

each

find