Run results for: While loop vs Closest

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.109 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 59

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.12.1

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 7 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
while	400145.7 Ops/sec
closest	263907.3 Ops/sec
parents	364611.7 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<style type="text/css">
.hidden {
display: none;
}
</style>
<div class="visible">
	<div class="hidden">
		<div class="hidden">
			<div class="hidden hidden-last"></div>
		</div>
	</div>
</div>

Script Preparation code:

var $element = $('.hidden-last');

Tests:

while
while ($element.is(":hidden")) { $element = $element.parent(); }
closest
$element = $element.closest(':visible');
parents
$element = $element.parents(':visible');

Run results for: While loop vs Closest

while

closest

parents