Run results for: Traverse function vs NodeIterator vs TreeWalker

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 12; CPH1919) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/122.0.6261.149 Mobile Safari/537.36 OPR/81.3.4292.78688

Browser: Opera Mobile 81

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

TreeWalker with filter param

367K/s

NodeIterator with filter param

335K/s

Traverse function

56K/s

TreeWalker with filter function

20K/s

NodeIterator with filter function

7K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ TreeWalker with filter param	367,280 Ops/sec
NodeIterator with filter param	334,513 Ops/sec
Traverse function	55,803 Ops/sec
TreeWalker with filter function	19,955 Ops/sec
NodeIterator with filter function	7,146 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

// language=HTML
const html = `
    <!-- article out start -->
    <article>
        <!-- article in start -->
        <h1>Lorem ipsum</h1>
        <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Cumque, nostrum.</p>
        <!-- article in end -->
    </article>
    <!-- article out end -->

    <!-- article out start -->
    <article>
        <!-- article in start -->
        <h1>Lorem ipsum</h1>
        <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Cumque, nostrum.</p>
        <!-- article in end -->
    </article>
    <!-- article out end -->

    <!-- article out start -->
    <article>
        <!-- article in start -->
        <h1>Lorem ipsum</h1>
        <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Cumque, nostrum.</p>
        <!-- article in end -->
    </article>
    <!-- article out end -->
`;
const template = document.createElement('template');
template.innerHTML = html;

window.testTemplate = template;

window.testTraverse = function traverse(node, use) {
    if (!node) return;

    use(node);
    traverse(node.firstChild, use);
    traverse(node.nextSibling, use);
}

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