Run results for: jquery multi-selector vs several selectors

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 131

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

multi-selector

2.1M/s

several selectors

497K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ multi-selector	2,063,361 Ops/sec
several selectors	497,066 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script
			  src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.1.0.js"
			  integrity="sha256-slogkvB1K3VOkzAI8QITxV3VzpOnkeNVsKvtkYLMjfk="
			  crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

Script Preparation code:

var element = $('<div class="foo"><span><p>Random things to select on</p></span></div>');

Tests:

multi-selector
element.is('.foo, .baz, .bar, .bang');
several selectors
element.is('.foo'); element.is('.bar'); element.is('.baz'); element.is('.bang');