Run results for: div vs svg

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.114 Safari/537.36 Edg/89.0.774.75

Browser: Chrome 89

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
div set text	1990730.4 Ops/sec
svg text	14277115.0 Ops/sec

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"

Run results for: div vs svg

div set text

svg text