querySelector vs getElementsByTagName (v115)

Revision 115 of this benchmark created by Brian Griffin on

Preparation HTML

<div>
  <ul>
    <li><a href="#">item 1</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">item 2</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">item 3</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">item 4</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">item 5</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">item 6</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">item 7</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">item 8</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">item 9</a></li>
  </ul>
</div>

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Testing in
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querySelector
var nodes = document.querySelector('a')
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getElementsByTagName
var nodes = document.getElementsByTagName('a')[0]
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