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Opened 11 years ago

Closed 11 years ago

Last modified 11 years ago

#10960 closed enhancement (invalid)

jQuery :first takes 5 times as long as el.eq(0)

Reported by: tsukasa1989@… Owned by:
Priority: low Milestone: None
Component: selector Version: 1.7.1
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked by: Blocking:

Description

I'm doing some research, and I wonder why is the following:

The following source takes 600ms

var d1 = new Date;
var t = $("table");
for(i=0;i<10000;i++)
{
    var f = t.find("td").eq(0);
}
console.log((new Date) - d1);

But then I change this:

var f = t.find("td:first");
or
var f = t.find("td:eq(0)");

Which takes 4000ms (it's x5!)

Though :first-child only takes 600ms and is the fastest.

Now I wonder, can't :first or :eq(0) be made faster, cu's this is insane. If I just select all elements and do a eq(0) after, it is way faster.

Change History (2)

comment:1 Changed 11 years ago by sindresorhus

Component: unfiledselector
Priority: undecidedlow
Resolution: invalid
Status: newclosed

Wrong place. Try asking in the forums, or on StackOverflow.

comment:2 Changed 11 years ago by Timmy Willison

The answer is that :first is a custom jQuery selector that does not use querySelectorAll. It is there for convenience, but we recommend using the faster native selectors.

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