jQuery vs JavaScript Performance Comparison (v51)

Revision 51 of this benchmark created on

Preparation HTML

<div id="main">
<p>Test</p>
<p>Test</p>
<p>Test</p>
<p>Test</p>
<p>Test</p>
<p>Test</p>
<p>Test</p>
</div>
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>

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Testing in
TestOps/sec
jQuery
var $paragraphs = $("#main").find("p");
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JavaScript
var main = document.getElementById("main"),
    paragraphs = main.getElementsByTagName("p");
ready

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