Benchmark: div vs svg - MeasureThat.net

Script Preparation code:

var div = document.createElement("div");
const svg1 = document.createElementNS("http://www.w3.org/2000/svg", "svg");

// set width and height
svg1.setAttribute("width", "100");
svg1.setAttribute("height", "100");

var svgText = document.createElementNS("http://www.w3.org/2000/svg", "text");

Tests:

div set text
div.innerText = "Testing, 1 2 3"
svg text
svgText.innerText = "Testing, 1 2 3"

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
div set text
svg text

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 7 months ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/116.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome Mobile 116 on Android

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Test name	Executions per second
div set text	863069.6 Ops/sec
svg text	6193640.0 Ops/sec

div vs svg (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: div set text vs svg text

Created: 3 years ago by: Guest

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div set text

svg text

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A