Performance of jQuery selector with context

Question

I was reading this article by Brandon Aaron here, about how jquery context may help. So i thought of doing a test of my own. So this is what I did.

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Answer 1

I've taken the JSBin code and put it into a jsPerf Test

$context.find('.holder') is twice as fast as its closest competitor, $('.holder', $context) and that is a good ten times faster than any other selector being used.

In conclusion, cache your selectors and use .find() for maximum performance