Zepto vs. jQ vs. jQmobi vs. raw

JavaScript performance comparison

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Zepto vs. jQuery vs. jQmobi vs. raw JS for getting an element by id (using latest versions, hosted on cl.ly)

Preparation code

<script src="http://f.cl.ly/items/0t3w1Z2R2L2s0J2D2Q2q/zepto.min.js">
</script>
<script src="http://f.cl.ly/items/2e2P0m3d1Q2U3w01230Y/jq.mobi.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://f.cl.ly/items/3J2O1D3d0I3a0P2e2V1c/jquery-1.7.2.min.js">
</script>
<script src="http://xuijs.com/downloads/xui-2.3.2.min.js">
</script>

<div id="asdf">
</div>
<script>
  Benchmark.prototype.setup = function() {
    function el(string) {
      if (string.indexOf('#') === 0) {
        return document.getElementById(string.substr(1, string.length));
      }
    }
    
    //to be fair, I'll wrap getElementById in a function and return the object
    
    
    function byId(id) {
      return document.getElementById(id);
    }
    
    var boolean = true;
  };
</script>

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Test Ops/sec
Zepto
 
Zepto('#asdf')
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jQuery
 
jQuery('#asdf')
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jQMobi
 
jq('#asdf')
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Raw/baseline
 
byId('asdf')
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Wrapped Raw
 
el('#asdf')
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Straight getElementById
 
document.getElementById('asdf')
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XUI
 
x$('#asdf')
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