getElementsByClassName VS querySelectorAll (v61)

Revision 61 of this benchmark created on

Preparation HTML

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div class='level1'>
 <div class='level2'>
    <ul class='level3'>
       <li><a href="#" name="name" class="level4">item 1</a></li>
    </ul>
  </div>
</div>
<script>
  var nodes;
</script>

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getElementsByClassName
var nodes = document.getElementsByClassName('level1')[0].getElementsByClassName('level2')[0].getElementsByClassName('level3')[0].getElementsByClassName('level4')[0];
var arr = [];
for (var i = 0, max = nodes.length; i < max; i++) arr.push(nodes[i]);
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querySelectorAll
var nodes = document.querySelectorAll('.level1 .level2 .level3 .level4');
var arr = [];
for (var i = 0, max = nodes.length; i < max; i++) arr.push(nodes[i]);
ready
jquery select
var nodes = $('.level1 .level2 .level3 .level4');
var arr = [];
for (var i = 0, max = nodes.length; i < max; i++) arr.push(nodes[i]);
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