jquery selector speed id vs class index (v110)

Revision 110 of this benchmark created on

Preparation HTML

<div id="container">
  <ul class="list">
    <li id="byID">1</li>
    <li class="unique_class">2</li>
    <li class="multi_class">3</li>
    <li class="multi_class">4</li>
  </ul>
</div><script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>

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Testing in
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$('#container li')
$('#container li');
ready
$('#container .unique_class')
$('#container .unique_class');
ready
$('#container li.unique_class')
$('#container li.unique_class');
ready
$('#container').find('li')
$('#container').find('li');
ready
$('#container').find('.unique_class')
$('#container').find('.unique_class');
ready
$('#container').find('li.unique_class')
$('#container').find('li.unique_class');
ready

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