Avoid Excessive Specificity (v3)

Revision 3 of this benchmark created on

Description

Test specificity as described on http://learn.jquery.com/performance/optimize-selectors/

Preparation HTML

<div></div>
<div>
  <div></div>
  <div class="data">
    <table class="attendees">
      <tr>
        <th></th>
        <th></th>
        <th></th>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td class="gonzalez"></td>
        <td class="gonzalez"></td>
        <td class="gonzalez"></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td></td>
        <td></td>
        <td class="gonzalez"></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td class="gonzalez"></td>
        <td></td>
        <td class="gonzalez"></td>
      </tr>
    <table>
    <table class="attendees">
      <tr>
        <th></th>
        <th></th>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td></td>
        <td class="gonzalez"></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td></td>
        <td></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td class="gonzalez"></td>
        <td class="gonzalez"></td>
      </tr>
    </table>
  </div>
  <div></div>
</div>
<div class="data"></div> 
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>

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Testing in
TestOps/sec
3 selectors
$( "div.data table.attendees td.gonzalez" );
ready
2 selectors
$( ".data td.gonzalez" );
ready
1 selector
$( "td.gonzalez" );
ready

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