jquery selector speed (v88)

Revision 88 of this benchmark created on

Preparation HTML

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

Setup

var container = $('#container');
    var list = $('#container ul:first');

Test runner

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Testing in
TestOps/sec
$('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
$('#container').find()
$('#container').find('li.target').css('border','1px solid red');
ready
getElm.find
$(document.getElementById('container')).find('.target').css('border','1px solid red');
ready
container.find('.target')
container.find('.target').css('border','1px solid red');
ready
list.find('.target')
list.find('.target').css('border','1px solid red');
ready

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