Run results for: jQuery parent() vs closest() speed performance comparison

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 120

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Closest

65K/s

Parent

58K/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ Closest	64,604 Ops/sec
Parent	58,479 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<ul>
	<li class="current">1</li>
	<li>2</li>
	<li>3</li>	   
</ul>

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>

Script Preparation code:

item = $('.current');

Tests:

Parent
console.log(item.parent());
Closest
console.log(item.closest('ul'));