$(this) or collection-faking

JavaScript performance comparison

Revision 6 of this test case created by Kyle Simpson

Info

Testing/profiling the code patterns from the Script Junkie article "(pre)Maturely Optimize Your JavaScript"

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptjunkie/gg622887.aspx

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Preparation code

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

<style>
.foo { color:blue; }
.other { color:red; }
</style>



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<script>
  var $a = $(1);
</script>

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Test runner

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$(this)
$("a").each(function() {
 var $this = $(this);
 $this.addClass((this.rel === "foo" && "foo") || "other");
});
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$a.context = $a[0] = this
$("a").each(function() {
 var $this = $a;
 $a.context = $a[0] = this;
 $this.addClass((this.rel === "foo" && "foo") || "other");
});
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Kyle Simpson (revision owner) commented :

this revision fixes an error in the previous one where $(0) doesn't give a good re-usable single-element collection, but $(1) does.

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