Run results for: JQuery: compare approaches for get of children

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)

Browser: Chrome 131

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
child selector	103143.8 Ops/sec
find function	111776.0 Ops/sec
children function	100220.3 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<select id="items">
  <option>Item 1</option>
  <option>Item 2</option>
  <option>Item 3</option>
  <option>Item 4</option>
  <option>Item 5</option>
  <option>Item 6</option>
  <option>Item 7</option>
  <option>Item 8</option>
  <option>Item 9</option>
  <option>Item 10</option>
</select>

<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.js'></script>

Tests:

child selector
let $options = $("#items > option");
find function
let $options = $("#items").find("option");
children function
let $options = $("#items").children();

Run results for: JQuery: compare approaches for get of children

Find the best approach for getting options

child selector

find function

children function