querySelectorAll vs getElementsByTagName (v137)

Revision 137 of this benchmark created by Tri 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>
  </ul>
</div>

Setup

function toArray(a, b, c, d) {
        c = -1;
        d = Array(a.length);
                while ((b = a[++c])) d[c] = b
                return d;
    
    
                 }
    
    var nodes;

Test runner

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Testing in
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querySelectorAll
nodes = document.querySelectorAll('a')[0]
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getElementsByTagName
 nodes = toArray(document.getElementsByTagName('a'))[0]
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