jquery selector speed (v6)

Revision 6 of this benchmark created on

Preparation HTML

<div id="wrapper">
</div>
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js">
</script>
<script>
  $(function(){
  for (var i = 0; i < 1000; ++i) {
    if (i == 501) {
      $('#wrapper').append('\
      <div id="container"><ul>\
          <li>1</li>\
          <li class="target">2</li>\
          <li>3</li>\
      </ul></div>');
    }
   else {
    $('#wrapper').append('\
      <div><div><div><ul>\
          <li class="target">1</li>\
          <li class="target2">2</li>\
          <li class="target3">3</li>\
      </ul></div></div></div>');
  }
  }});
</script>

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Testing in
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$('div#container ul li.target')
$('div#container ul li.target').css('border', '1px solid red');
ready
$('#container .target')
$('#container .target').css('border', '1px solid red');
ready
$('li.target')
$('li.target').css('border', '1px solid red');
ready
$('.target')
$('.target').css('border', '1px solid red');
ready

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