Run results for: div vs svg

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 14_4_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.0.3 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 14

Operating system: iOS 14.4.2

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
div set text	4431182.5 Ops/sec
svg text	21405160.0 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