Run results for: children vs find < in jQuery

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/127.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 127

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

parent.find("> *")

62.6M/s

parent.find("> .child")

61.1M/s

parent.find("> span")

60.5M/s

parent.find("> [data-attr=value]")

60.3M/s

parent.children()

13.9M/s

parent.children(".child")

4.1M/s

parent.children("span")

3.6M/s

parent.children("[data-attr=value]")

3.3M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ parent.find("> *")	62,574,816 Ops/sec
parent.find("> .child")	61,081,872 Ops/sec
parent.find("> span")	60,541,312 Ops/sec
parent.find("> [data-attr=value]")	60,289,388 Ops/sec
parent.children()	13,868,898 Ops/sec
parent.children(".child")	4,075,532 Ops/sec
parent.children("span")	3,644,600 Ops/sec
parent.children("[data-attr=value]")	3,296,512 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="#parent">
  <div class="child">Child Class 1</div>
  <div class="child">Child Class 2</div>
  <span>Child element 3</span>
  <span>Child element 4</span>
  <label data-attr="value">Child Attribute value 5</label>
  <label data-attr="value">Child Attribute value 6</label>
  <p>
     <span class="child" data-attr="value">Grandchild 7 (must not be matched)</div>
  </p>
</div><script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

Script Preparation code:

Benchmark.prototype.setup = function() {

          
  var parent = $("#parent")

        
  };

Tests:

parent.children()
var results = parent.children();
parent.find("> *")
var results = parent.find("> *");
parent.children(".child")
var results = parent.children(".child");
parent.find("> .child")
var results = parent.find("> .child");
parent.children("span")
var results = parent.children("span");
parent.find("> span")
var results = parent.find("> span");
parent.children("[data-attr=value]")
var results = parent.children("[data-attr=value]");
parent.find("> [data-attr=value]")
var results = parent.find("> [data-attr=value]");