Run results for: Traverse function vs NodeIterator vs TreeWalker

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:131.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/131.0

Browser: Firefox 131

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

NodeIterator with filter param

1.7M/s

TreeWalker with filter param

1.5M/s

Traverse function

1.0M/s

TreeWalker with filter function

242K/s

NodeIterator with filter function

106K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ NodeIterator with filter param	1,689,043 Ops/sec
TreeWalker with filter param	1,488,959 Ops/sec
Traverse function	1,006,591 Ops/sec
TreeWalker with filter function	241,955 Ops/sec
NodeIterator with filter function	105,643 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);
}

Tests: