Run results for: Node closest vs node contains

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_4 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/123.0.6312.52 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Chrome Mobile iOS 123

Operating system: iOS 17.4

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

Contains

10.1M/s

Closest

6.6M/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ Contains	10,104,500 Ops/sec
Closest	6,639,524 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div class="parent">
  <div class="child">
	</div>
</div>

Script Preparation code:

var parent = document.querySelector(".parent");
var child = document.querySelector(".child");

Tests:

Contains
var x = parent.contains(child)
Closest
var x = child.closest('.parent')