Naw, it doesn't matter if you 'return' on jQuery events (v4)

Revision 4 of this benchmark created on

Preparation HTML

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.0/jquery.min.js"></script>


<div id="a">
   <div class="suggestKeyword"></div>
   <div class="suggestKeyword"></div>
   <div class="suggestKeyword"></div>
   <div class="suggestKeyword"></div>
   <div class="suggestKeyword"></div>
   <div class="suggestKeyword"></div>
   <div class="suggestKeyword"></div>
   <div class="suggestKeyword"></div>
   <div class="suggestKeyword"></div>
   <div class="suggestKeyword"></div>
   <div class="suggestKeyword"></div>
</div>

Setup

var a = $(document.getElementById('a'));

Test runner

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Testing in
TestOps/sec
on with tag
a.on('mousedown', 'div', function() {
event.preventDefault();
});
ready
on with class
a.on('mousedown', '.suggestKeyword', function() {
event.preventDefault();
});
ready

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