jQuery Selector Perf - Right-to-Left (v89)

Revision 89 of this benchmark created by Chris Miller on

Description

Demonstrating Right To Left Thinking, and validating its performance for this case.

Preparation HTML

<div id="parent">
  <p class="child">
    Why Right to Left Thinking is Good
  </p>
  <p class="child">
    Blah Blah Blah
  </p>
</div>
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js">
</script>

Test runner

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Testing in
TestOps/sec
"Left to Write" Thinking
$('#box p');
ready
"Right to Left"
$('#box').children('p');
ready
Alternate "Right to Left"
$('#box').find('p');
ready
Using child selector
$('#box > p');
ready
pure JS
document.getElementById("box").getElementsByTagName("p");
ready

Revisions

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