Run results for: Fastest way to list children: childNodes vs children vs firstChild/nextSibling vs firstElementChild/nextElementSibling v2

Result: firstElementChild is the fastest yielding 3-4X performance. With lastElementChild close 2nd. Other observations: doing for loop i-- with children shows ~150% higher performance vs i++. And unloading it into a variable prior yields another ~200% boost

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Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.1.2 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 17

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
✓ firstElementChild nextElementChild	19,970,914 Ops/sec
lastElementChild previousElementChild	19,806,046 Ops/sec
firstChild nextSibling	17,839,280 Ops/sec
children-- (into variable)	12,261,537 Ops/sec
ChildNodes for-- (direct)	8,641,067 Ops/sec
ChildNodes for (into variable)	6,952,351 Ops/sec
childNodes foreach	5,897,906 Ops/sec
children-- (direct)	4,591,774 Ops/sec
children (direct)	2,798,240 Ops/sec
ChildNodes for-- (into variable)	2,712,759 Ops/sec

Test name

Executions per second

✓ firstElementChild nextElementChild

19,970,914 Ops/sec

lastElementChild previousElementChild

19,806,046 Ops/sec

firstChild nextSibling

17,839,280 Ops/sec

children-- (into variable)

12,261,537 Ops/sec

ChildNodes for-- (direct)

8,641,067 Ops/sec

ChildNodes for (into variable)

6,952,351 Ops/sec

childNodes foreach

5,897,906 Ops/sec

children-- (direct)

4,591,774 Ops/sec

children (direct)

2,798,240 Ops/sec

ChildNodes for-- (into variable)

2,712,759 Ops/sec

Tests:

childNodes foreach
parent.childNodes.forEach(function (node) { let n = node; });
children (direct)
for (let i = 0; i < parent.children.length; i++) { let n = parent.children[i]; }
firstChild nextSibling
let elem = parent.firstChild; do { let n = elem; } while (elem = elem.nextSibling)
firstElementChild nextElementChild
let elem = parent.firstElementChild; do { let n = elem; } while (elem = elem.nextElementSibling)
ChildNodes for (into variable)
let children = parent.childNodes; for (let i = 0; i < children.length; i++) { let n = children[i]; }
children-- (direct)
for (let i = parent.children.length-1; i >= 0; i--) { let n = parent.children[i]; }
ChildNodes for-- (into variable)
for (let i = parent.childNodes.length-1; i >= 0; i--) { let n = parent.childNodes[i]; }
ChildNodes for-- (direct)
let children = parent.childNodes; for (let i = children.length-1; i >= 0; i--) { let n = children[i]; }
lastElementChild previousElementChild
let elem = parent.lastElementChild; do { let n = elem; } while (elem = elem.previousElementSibling)
children-- (into variable)
let children = parent.children for (let i = children.length-1; i >= 0; i--) { let n = children[i]; }