Run results for: JQuery version speed test 2.2.4 vs 3.4.1

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4042.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 81

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
$jq1124	2631.3 Ops/sec
$jq224	3290.4 Ops/sec
$jq341	2932.0 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src='https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.12.4/jquery.min.js'></script>
<script>
  var $jq1124 = $.noConflict(true);
</script>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.2.4/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
  var $jq224 = $.noConflict(true);
</script>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
  var $jq341 = $.noConflict(true);
</script>
<div>
  <ul id="menu">
    <li class="menu-item">1</li>
    <li class="menu-item">2</li>
    <li class="menu-item">3</li>
    <li class="menu-item">4</li>  
  </ul>
</div>

Script Preparation code:

function tests($) {
    $(".menu-item").eq(2).closest("ul").css({
      "background-color": "red"
    }).parent().css({
      "border": "1px solid blue"
    }).append($("<p></p>").text("Text.").css({
      "background-color": "green"
    })).end().end().remove();
  $( "<style>*{ cursor: " + 'grabbing' + " !important; }</style>" ).appendTo( '#menu' ).remove();
  console.log('tests' + $);
}

Tests:

$jq1124
tests($jq1124);
$jq224
tests($jq224);
$jq341
tests($jq341);