Benchmark: jquery 1.12.4 vs 2.2.4 vs 3.5.0

HTML Preparation code:

<script src='https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.12.4/jquery.min.js'></script>
<script>
  var $jq1124 = $.noConflict(true);
</script>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.2.4/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
  var $jq224 = $.noConflict(true);
</script>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
  var $jq350 = $.noConflict(true);
</script>
<div>
  <ul id="menu">
    <li class="menu-item">1</li>
    <li class="menu-item">2</li>
    <li class="menu-item">3</li>
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  </ul>
</div>

Script Preparation code:

function tests($) {
    $(".menu-item").eq(2).closest("ul").css({
      "background-color": "red"
    }).parent().css({
      "border": "1px solid blue"
    }).append($("<p></p>").text("Text.").css({
      "background-color": "green"
    })).end().end().remove();
  console.log('tests' + $);
}

Tests:

jquery 1.12.4
tests($jq1124);
jquery 2.2.4
tests($jq224);
jquery 3.5.0
tests($jq350);

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
jquery 1.12.4
jquery 2.2.4
jquery 3.5.0

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 5 months ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:147.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/147.0

Browser/OS: Firefox 147 on Mac OS X 10.15

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jquery 3.5.0

120K/s

jquery 2.2.4

115K/s

jquery 1.12.4

77K/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ jquery 3.5.0	120,093 Ops/sec
jquery 2.2.4	114,796 Ops/sec
jquery 1.12.4	76,840 Ops/sec

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated one year ago):

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I'll break down the benchmark and explain what's being tested, compared, and some of the considerations.

**Benchmark Overview**

The benchmark is designed to compare the performance of three different versions of jQuery: 1.12.4, 2.2.4, and 3.5.0. The tests are run using Firefox 112 on a desktop Windows platform.

**Test Cases**

There are three test cases:

1. `jquery 1.12.4`
2. `jquery 2.2.4`
3. `jquery 3.5.0`

Each test case has a single benchmark definition, which is the same: `tests($jqX);`, where `$jqX` is replaced with the version number of jQuery.

**Script Preparation Code**

The script preparation code sets up the HTML and JavaScript environment for each test case. It creates a basic HTML structure with a `<div>` element containing an unordered list (`<ul>`) with 14 identical items (using 7 times of `<li>`) and uses jQuery to manipulate the DOM.

**Individual Test Cases**

Each test case has its own set of instructions, which are executed by the `tests($jqX);` function. The `$jqX` variable is replaced with the version number of jQuery for each test case.

Here's a breakdown of what happens in each test case:

1. `jquery 1.12.4`: The script uses `$jq1124` to manipulate the DOM, which should be slower than newer versions.
2. `jquery 2.2.4`: The script uses `$jq224` to manipulate the DOM, which is faster than version 1.12.4 but may still be slower than version 3.5.0.
3. `jquery 3.5.0`: The script uses `$jq350` to manipulate the DOM, which should be the fastest.

**Raw UA String**

The Raw UA String is a string that indicates the browser's user agent (UA) string. In this case, it's the same for all three test cases: "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/112.0". This means that the tests are run on a specific version of Firefox.

**Executions Per Second**

The Executions Per Second value indicates how many times each test case is executed per second. The values are:

* `jquery 3.5.0`: 22,719
* `jquery 2.2.4`: 22,572
* `jquery 1.12.4`: 17,520

This suggests that version 3.5.0 is the fastest, followed by version 2.2.4, and then version 1.12.4.

**Considerations**

Some potential considerations when interpreting these results include:

* The browser's cache: Firefox might have cached previous versions of jQuery, which could affect the performance results.
* System resources: The desktop Windows platform used for testing may not be representative of all environments.
* Optimization techniques: The test cases may use optimization techniques that are specific to one or more versions of jQuery.

Overall, this benchmark provides a comparison of the performance of three different versions of jQuery on a specific browser and platform.

jquery 1.12.4 vs 2.2.4 vs 3.5.0 (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: `jquery 1.12.4 vs jquery 2.2.4 vs jquery 3.5.0`

Created: 6 years ago by: Guest

Go to the latest result

jquery 1.12.4

jquery 2.2.4

jquery 3.5.0

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated one year ago):

jquery 1.12.4 vs 2.2.4 vs 3.5.0 (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: jquery 1.12.4 vs jquery 2.2.4 vs jquery 3.5.0

Created: 6 years ago by: Guest

Go to the latest result

jquery 1.12.4

jquery 2.2.4

jquery 3.5.0

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated one year ago):

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