querySelectorAll vs getElementsByTagName (v61)

Revision 61 of this benchmark created by Oliver Clevont 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 i, item, count, nodes = document.querySelectorAll('a');

for(i=0; item = nodes[i++];) if(item.tagName) count++;
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getElementsByTagName
var i, item, count, nodes = document.getElementsByTagName('a');

for(i=0; item = nodes[i++];) if(item.tagName) count++;
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