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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/122.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 122

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Parent	9962.7 Ops/sec
Closest	14709.4 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'));

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

Parent

Closest