Run results for: getElementById VS querySelector (simple comparison)

A simple comparison of performance between these two methods. (Medium, @benlmsc)

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Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/116.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Chrome 116
Mac OS X 10.15.7
Desktop
one year ago
The method getElementById()
6.8M/s
The method querySelector()
1.5M/s
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Test name Executions per second
✓ The method getElementById() 6,785,717 Ops/sec
The method querySelector() 1,476,623 Ops/sec
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