Selecting the first (v8)

Revision 8 of this benchmark created on

Preparation HTML

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<div>
        <ul>
        <li class="answer">Foo</li>
        <li class="answer">Bar</li>
        <li class="answer">Moo</li>
        <li class="answer">Cat</li>
        <ul>
</div>

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Testing in
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first() method
$('.answer').first();
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:first sizzle
$('.answer:first');
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.eq(0) method
$('.answer').eq(0);
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:eq(0) sizzle
$('.answer:eq(0)');
ready
$($(".answer")[0]) nested jQuery object
$($(".answer")[0]);
ready

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