> 500k ops is ridiculously slow for accessing the DOM on any modern hardware. It sounds fast when aren’t comparing it to anything. I didn't say it was fast OR

> 500k ops is ridiculously slow for accessing the DOM on any modern hardware. It sounds fast when aren’t comparing it to anything. I didn't say it was fast OR slow. I just said it's not slow enough to be the problem that you're claiming it is. If you disagree with this, could you provide evidence of a situation where accessing elements with strings is a bottleneck? As I said, I've never seen this in practice and if it can be the case I would like to know more. > Compare that to a similar approach that makes use of the standard DOM methods querySelector is a standard DOM method. > and no selectors I don't know what you're referring to here. Could you provide an example?