Run results for: stage1 collect varients v4

Test name	Executions per second
✓ collect2 nested	5,669,296 Ops/sec
collect2 mixed depth	4,599,320 Ops/sec
collect nested	1,894,804 Ops/sec
collect mixed depth	1,859,028 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

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var h = M;
var collect = T; // original
var collect2 = N; // custom
var view=h('<div class=d1><span></span><div class=d2><span></span><div class=d3><span></span><div class=d4><span></span><div class=d5><span></span><div class=d6><span></span><div class=d7><span></span><div class=d8><span></span><div class=d9><span></span><div class=d10><span></span><div class=d11><!--></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>');
var view2=h('<div class=d1><span><div class=d2><span><div class=d3><span><div class=d4><span><div class=d5><span><div class=d6><span><div class=d7><span><div class=d8><span><div class=d9><span><div class=d10><span><div class=d11><!--></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div>');

Run results for: stage1 collect varients v4

collect mixed depth

collect2 mixed depth

collect nested

collect2 nested