Run results for: While loop vs Closest

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.100 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 80

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
while	35987.9 Ops/sec
closest	33902.0 Ops/sec
parents	379157.5 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