jQuery :contains VS .filter (v5)

Revision 5 of this benchmark created on

Preparation HTML

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<ul id="list">
    
</ul>

Setup

for (var i = 0; i <= 10000; i++)
    $('#list').append('<li><a href="#">text</a></li>');
  var $A = $('#list').find('li'),
    filter = "ext";
  var regX = new RegExp('<a.*?>' + filter + '</a>', 'gi');

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Testing in
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:contains
var no = $A.not(':contains(" + filter + ")'),
  yes = $A.filter(":contains(" + filter + ")");
ready
.filter
var no = $A.filter(function() {
  return !(regX.test($(this).text()))
}),
  yes = $A.filter(function() {
    return (regX.test($(this).text()))
  });
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