jQuery find() vs find().filter() with attribute selector (v11)

Revision 11 of this benchmark created on

Description

What's the difference in performance between:

$("div[data-num='300']");

and

$("div").filter("[data-num='300']");

Preparation HTML

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<script>

for (var i = 0; i < 500; i++) {
document.write("<div data-num='" + i + "'>" + i + "</div>\n");
}

var divs = $('div');
</script>

Test runner

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Testing in
TestOps/sec
$("div[data-num='300']")
$("div[data-num='300']");
ready
$("div").filter("[data-num='300']")
$("div").filter("[data-num='300']");
ready
with var
var $tmp = $("div");
$tmp.filter("[data-num='300']");
ready
divs.filter
divs.filter("[data-num='300']");
ready
[data-num='300']
$("[data-num='300']");
ready
find([data-num='300'])
$.find("[data-num='300']");
ready
$("div").find("[data-num='300']")
divs.find("[data-num='300']");
ready

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