[esailija]

That is a common fallacy and benchmarking anti-pattern, and it really enrages me that some people look at the completely incorrect results and justify it with "I am going to be using this with jQuery so why shouldn't I add some jQuery method calls". And you are denying this despite the "fixed" js perf showing different results e.g. on chrome 29.

You should read http://zedshaw.com/essays/programmer_stats.html

[sesqu]

I think you misunderstood. I'm denying nothing.

What I meant was that if I'm going to run a website with jQuery calls, I should absolutely test with jQuery calls. It makes no sense to claim that one should, say, always use short variable names, if one then ships with google closure.