Run results for: Traverse function vs NodeIterator vs TreeWalker (elements)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/141.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 141

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 9 months ago

Traverse function

3.5M/s

TreeWalker with filter param

2.0M/s

NodeIterator with filter param

1.5M/s

TreeWalker with filter function

16K/s

NodeIterator with filter function

15K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Traverse function	3,537,510 Ops/sec
TreeWalker with filter param	1,975,882 Ops/sec
NodeIterator with filter param	1,527,301 Ops/sec
TreeWalker with filter function	15,530 Ops/sec
NodeIterator with filter function	15,103 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

// language=HTML
const html = `
    <!-- article out start -->
    <article>
        <!-- article in start -->
        <h1>Lorem ipsum</h1>
        <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Cumque, nostrum.</p>
        <!-- article in end -->
    </article>
    <!-- article out end -->

    <!-- article out start -->
    <article>
        <!-- article in start -->
        <h1>Lorem ipsum</h1>
        <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Cumque, nostrum.</p>
        <!-- article in end -->
    </article>
    <!-- article out end -->

    <!-- article out start -->
    <article>
        <!-- article in start -->
        <h1>Lorem ipsum</h1>
        <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Cumque, nostrum.</p>
        <!-- article in end -->
    </article>
    <!-- article out end -->
`;
const template = document.createElement('template');
template.innerHTML = html;

window.testTemplate = template;

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