jquery find versus context selection

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The calls are not identical.

According Brandon Aaron, who apparently worked on jQuery, and also according to the live tests here, the find method is always faster. See results in the screenshot below. Please comment if I am missing something.

With a 10% or greater difference in speed, depending on browser, it definitely seems worth using find.

Further explanation at Brandon’s site is here.

Results of performance comparison between jQuery context and jQuery find method

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