querySelectorAll vs getElementsByTagName (v35)

Revision 35 of this benchmark created 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>

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querySelectorAll
var nodes = document.querySelectorAll('a, li, ul, div')
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getElementsByTagName
var nodes = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
var li = document.getElementsByTagName('li');
var ul = document.getElementsByTagName('ul');
var div = document.getElementsByTagName('div');
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