getElementsByClassName VS querySelectorAll (v33)

Revision 33 of this benchmark created on

Preparation HTML

<div>
  <ul>
    <li>
      <a href="#" name="name" class="classname">item 1</a>
    </li>
    <li>
      <a href="#" name="name" class="classname">item 2</a>
    </li>
    <li>
      <a href="#" name="name" class="classname">item 3</a>
    </li>
    <li>
      <a href="#" name="name" class="classname">item 4</a>
    </li>
    <li>
      <a href="#" name="name" class="classname">item 5</a>
    </li>
    <li>
      <a href="#" name="name" class="classname">item 6</a>
    </li>
    <li>
      <a href="#" name="name" class="classname">item 7</a>
    </li>
    <li>
      <a href="#" name="name" class="classname">item 8</a>
    </li>
    <li>
      <a href="#" name="name" class="classname">item 9</a>
    </li>
    <li>
      <a href="#" name="name" class="classname">item 10</a>
    </li>
  </ul>
</div>
<script>
  var nodes;
</script>

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Testing in
TestOps/sec
getElementsByClassName
nodes = document.getElementsByClassName('classname');
ready
querySelectorAll
nodes = document.querySelectorAll('.classname');
ready
getElementsByTagName
nodes = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
nl = nodes.length;
newnodes = [];
for (var i = 0; i < nl; i++) {

  if (nodes[i].getAttribute('class') === 'classname') {
    //newnodes.push(nodes[i]);
console.log('a');
  }

}
ready

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