- From: Glen Huang <curvedmark@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 11:30:05 +0800
- To: Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@apple.com>
- Cc: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
I wonder why querySelector can't get the same optimization: If the passed selector is a simple selector like ".class", do exactly as getElementsByClassName('class')[0] does?
> On Apr 28, 2015, at 10:51 AM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@apple.com> wrote:
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>> On Apr 27, 2015, at 7:04 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 1:57 AM, Glen Huang <curvedmark@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Intuitively, querySelector('.class') only needs to find the first matching
>>> node, whereas getElementsByClassName('.class')[0] needs to find all matching
>>> nodes and then return the first. The former should be a lot quicker than the
>>> latter. Why that's not the case?
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>> I can't speak for other browsers, but Gecko-based browsers only search
>> the DOM until the first hit for getElementsByClassName('class')[0].
>> I'm not sure why you say that it must scan for all hits.
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> WebKit (and, AFAIK, Blink) has the same optimization. It's a very important optimization.
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> - R. Niwa
>
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