Benchmark: affectation : innerHTML vs textContent vs Element vs true

HTML Preparation code:

<button id="button">
  <p>This is the text of my Button</p>
  <template>
    <p style="color:red;">This is a template text</p>
    <p>So much things here</p>
  </template>
</button>

Script Preparation code:

var BUTTON = document.querySelector('#button');

Tests:

innerHTML
const a = BUTTON.innerHTML;
textContent
const b = BUTTON.textContent;
Element
const c = BUTTON;
true
const d = true;

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
innerHTML
textContent
Element
true

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 2 months ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 121 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
innerHTML	1307419.0 Ops/sec
textContent	4609290.0 Ops/sec
Element	30591860.0 Ops/sec
true	225861100.0 Ops/sec

affectation : innerHTML vs textContent vs Element vs true (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: innerHTML vs textContent vs Element vs true

Created: 2 months ago by: Guest

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innerHTML

textContent

Element

true

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A