Benchmark: Fastest way to list children: childNodes vs children vs firstChild/nextSibling vs firstElementChild/nextElementSibling v2

Fastest way to list children: childNodes vs children vs firstChild/nextSibling vs firstElementChild/nextElementSibling v2 (version: 0)

Result: firstElementChild is the fastest yielding 3-4X performance. With lastElementChild close 2nd. Other observations: doing for loop i-- with children shows ~150% higher performance vs i++. And unloading it into a variable prior yields another ~200% boost

Comparing performance of: childNodes foreach vs children (direct) vs firstChild nextSibling vs firstElementChild nextElementChild vs ChildNodes for (into variable) vs children-- (direct) vs ChildNodes for-- (into variable) vs ChildNodes for-- (direct) vs lastElementChild previousElementChild vs children-- (into variable)

Created: 2 years ago by: Guest

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HTML Preparation code:

<html>

<body>
    <div id='test'>
        <div name='a'></div>
        <div name='b'></div>
        <div name='c'></div>
    </div>
</body>

</html>

Script Preparation code:

var parent = document.getElementById('test');

Tests:

childNodes foreach
parent.childNodes.forEach(function (node) { let n = node; });
children (direct)
for (let i = 0; i < parent.children.length; i++) { let n = parent.children[i]; }
firstChild nextSibling
let elem = parent.firstChild; do { let n = elem; } while (elem = elem.nextSibling)
firstElementChild nextElementChild
let elem = parent.firstElementChild; do { let n = elem; } while (elem = elem.nextElementSibling)
ChildNodes for (into variable)
let children = parent.childNodes; for (let i = 0; i < children.length; i++) { let n = children[i]; }
children-- (direct)
for (let i = parent.children.length-1; i >= 0; i--) { let n = parent.children[i]; }
ChildNodes for-- (into variable)
for (let i = parent.childNodes.length-1; i >= 0; i--) { let n = parent.childNodes[i]; }
ChildNodes for-- (direct)
let children = parent.childNodes; for (let i = children.length-1; i >= 0; i--) { let n = children[i]; }
lastElementChild previousElementChild
let elem = parent.lastElementChild; do { let n = elem; } while (elem = elem.previousElementSibling)
children-- (into variable)
let children = parent.children for (let i = children.length-1; i >= 0; i--) { let n = children[i]; }

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
childNodes foreach
children (direct)
firstChild nextSibling
firstElementChild nextElementChild
ChildNodes for (into variable)
children-- (direct)
ChildNodes for-- (into variable)
ChildNodes for-- (direct)
lastElementChild previousElementChild
children-- (into variable)

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 21 hours ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 126 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
childNodes foreach	161494.7 Ops/sec
children (direct)	295988.7 Ops/sec
firstChild nextSibling	1465045.0 Ops/sec
firstElementChild nextElementChild	2015169.0 Ops/sec
ChildNodes for (into variable)	521040.0 Ops/sec
children-- (direct)	462176.8 Ops/sec
ChildNodes for-- (into variable)	230027.9 Ops/sec
ChildNodes for-- (direct)	551425.6 Ops/sec
lastElementChild previousElementChild	2015412.0 Ops/sec
children-- (into variable)	980400.5 Ops/sec

Fastest way to list children: childNodes vs children vs firstChild/nextSibling vs firstElementChild/nextElementSibling v2 (version: 0)

Result: firstElementChild is the fastest yielding 3-4X performance. With lastElementChild close 2nd. Other observations: doing for loop i-- with children shows ~150% higher performance vs i++. And unloading it into a variable prior yields another ~200% boost

Created: 2 years ago by: Guest

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childNodes foreach

children (direct)

firstChild nextSibling

firstElementChild nextElementChild

ChildNodes for (into variable)

children-- (direct)

ChildNodes for-- (into variable)

ChildNodes for-- (direct)

lastElementChild previousElementChild

children-- (into variable)

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A