On 1/20/11, Steven Yang <kenshin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > as I remembered a while ago maybe at jQuery 1.2x or 1.3x, people recommended > using .find or $(selector, context), one thing is simply because .find was > just faster. Then I think it was John himself said that they both should do > the same thing (performance wise). Now at jQuery 1.4 or 1.5, I think the two > methods should be the same speed. Why? jQuery switches between native querySelectorAll and Sizzle. Or "oldSizzle".
I explained in "JavaScript Query Engines" -- see subsection "Native First Dual Approach": http://dhtmlkitchen.com/?category=/JavaScript/&date=2010/09/09/&entry=JavaScript-Query-Engines#broken-by-design -- Garrett -- To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: http://www.mail-archive.com/jsmentors@jsmentors.com/ To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: http://www.mail-archive.com/jsmentors@googlegroups.com/ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jsmentors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
