jQuery Live VS On

Benchmark created by Jasper on

Preparation HTML

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="a_div"></div>

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Testing in
TestOps/sec
Live
$('#a_div').live('click', function () {});
ready
On (similar to delegate)
$(document).on('click', '#a_div', function () {});
ready
On (similar to bind)
$('#a_div').on('click', function () {});
ready

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