Benchmark: jQuery selector vs find

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.6.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div class="outer">
  <div class="inner"></div>
</div>

Tests:

jQuery raw
$('.outer .inner').on('click', function (e) {});
jQuery find
const $outer = $('.outer'); $outer.find('.inner').on('click', function (e) {});

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Previous results

Test case name	Result
jQuery raw
jQuery find

Latest run results:

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

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 133 on Windows

Test name	Executions per second
jQuery raw	849999.4 Ops/sec
jQuery find	616466.9 Ops/sec

Related benchmarks:

jQuery selector vs find (version: 1)