Benchmark: querySelector(nth-of-child) vs querySelectorAll and index array

HTML Preparation code:

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Tests:

document.querySelector(nth)
document.querySelector("div#base > div:nth-of-type(5)")
document.querySelectorAll
document.querySelectorAll('div#base > div.test')[4]

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
document.querySelector(nth)
document.querySelectorAll

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: one year ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 133 on Mac OS X 10.15.7

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Test name	Executions per second
document.querySelector(nth)	4850278.0 Ops/sec
document.querySelectorAll	2021615.1 Ops/sec

Related benchmarks:

querySelector(nth-of-child) vs querySelectorAll and index array (version: 1)

Comparing performance of: document.querySelector(nth) vs document.querySelectorAll

Created: one year ago by: Guest

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document.querySelector(nth)

document.querySelectorAll

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

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