Benchmark: replacing node text

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="container"></div>

Script Preparation code:

var container = document.getElementById("container");

var shortString = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.";
var longString = "Curabitur eros quam, pellentesque a tellus vestibulum, imperdiet condimentum nibh. Nullam sollicitudin porta nunc quis feugiat. Pellentesque tincidunt commodo dolor a ullamcorper. Etiam accumsan mauris ac ex interdum ornare. Sed sodales sem sit amet risus viverra efficitur. Phasellus eget leo et mauris volutpat congue. Nam nisl sapien, scelerisque vel pulvinar quis, molestie luctus ex. Integer vel dolor hendrerit, lobortis nisi ac, laoreet velit. Duis luctus sodales pulvinar.";

Tests:

innerHTML shortString
container.innerHTML = shortString;
innerHTML longString
container.innerHTML = longString;
textContent shortString
container.textContent = shortString;
textContent longString
container.textContent = longString;

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
innerHTML shortString
innerHTML longString
textContent shortString
textContent longString

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 11 months ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/113.0

Browser/OS: Firefox 113 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
innerHTML shortString	363047.0 Ops/sec
innerHTML longString	177652.0 Ops/sec
textContent shortString	369765.2 Ops/sec
textContent longString	287717.0 Ops/sec

replacing node text (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: innerHTML shortString vs innerHTML longString vs textContent shortString vs textContent longString

Created: 7 years ago by: Registered User

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innerHTML shortString

innerHTML longString

textContent shortString

textContent longString

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A