jQuery children vs find

JavaScript performance comparison

Revision 38 of this test case created on 7th December 2012

Info

This testcase compares the performance of .children() and .find()

Preparation code

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Test		Ops/sec
children('div')	`$('#test').children('div'); // 36 results`	pending…
find('div')	`$('#test').find('div'); // 612 results`	pending…
children('.outer')	`$('#test').children('.outer'); // 36 results`	pending…
find('.outer')	`$('#test').find('> .outer'); // 36 results`	pending…
children('.inner')	`$('#test').children('.inner'); // 0 results`	pending…
find('.inner')	`$('#test').find('.inner'); // 36 results`	pending…

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