getElementById vs. querySelector (v47)

Revision 47 of this benchmark created on

Description

Compare the speed of getElementById to querySelector

Preparation HTML

<p id="bar">Bar</p>

Setup

var idSelectorRegexp = /^#[a-zA-Z]+[a-zA-Z0-9_\-]*$/;
    
    var select = function(query){
      // pure ID selector?
      if (idSelectorRegexp.test(query))
        return document.getElementById(query.slice(1));
      else
        return document.querySelector(query);
    };

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getElementById
var $bar = $(document.getElementById("bar"));
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querySelector
var $bar = $("#bar");
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