Run results for: Direct querySelector scope vs no scope

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/134.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 134

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

querySelector no scope

3.2M/s

querySelector scope

2.2M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ querySelector no scope	3,189,146 Ops/sec
querySelector scope	2,153,085 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id='parent'>
  <div class="foo">
    <div class="bar">
      <div class="baz">
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

Tests:

querySelector scope
document.getElementById("parent").querySelector(':scope > .foo')
querySelector no scope
document.getElementById("parent").querySelector('.foo')