Run results for: querySelectorAll(':scope > *') vs childNodes

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/134.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 134

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

childNodes

10.3M/s

querySelectorAll

6.0M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ childNodes	10,339,781 Ops/sec
querySelectorAll	5,997,380 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id='parent'></div>

Script Preparation code:

let p = document.getElementById('parent');
Array(100).forEach(i=>p.append(`<span></span>`));

Tests:

querySelectorAll
document.getElementById('parent').querySelectorAll(':scope > *').forEach((c,i)=>c.textContent=i);
childNodes
document.getElementById('parent').childNodes.forEach((c,i)=>c.textContent=i);