SO fiddle

Test Fiddle mainly for SO Questions

by Nick Craver

HTML

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.4/themes/overcast/jquery-ui.css">
<p id="p1"><span>Test</span></p>

JavaScript

var loops = 100000;

console.time('.find()');
for(var i=0; i<loops; i++)
    $('#p1').find('span');
console.timeEnd('.find()');


console.time('selector');
for(var i=0; i<loops; i++)
    $('#p1 span');
console.timeEnd('selector');