I couldn't tell you which one is faster, but if you want to find out
for yourself then you can use the profiler in FireBug. It's an addon
for FireFox that has some powerful javascrip tools included. Write a
short script with a function that runs the selector you want to
profile in a loop, say 100 iterations, and then call it while the
profiler is running.
On Dec 3, 10:58 pm, sawmac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> is there a difference in performance for these two:
>
> $('p span')
>
> $('p').find('span')
>
> while, I'm on the subject, what's a good way to test performance of
> queries (and scripts in general)
>
> thanks
>
> --dave
