Benchmark: checking if nodeValue is equal vs simply setting it

Script Preparation code:

var text = document.createTextNode("hello world");
var newNodeValue = "hello world";

Tests:

checking previous text
if (text.nodeValue !== newNodeValue) { text.nodeValue = newNodeValue; }
setting nodeValue
text.nodeValue = newNodeValue;

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Previous results

Test case name	Result
checking previous text
setting nodeValue

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 3 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.0.5 Safari/605.1.15

Browser/OS: Safari 13 on Mac OS X 10.14.6

Test name	Executions per second
checking previous text	3651994.0 Ops/sec
setting nodeValue	3255960.0 Ops/sec

checking if nodeValue is equal vs simply setting it (version: 0)