Run results for: Encode html without creating html elements

There are two way of encoding html elements. One is the create an html element and let the browser handle it. The second looks at every character passed in and then runs a regex match on it and replaces the chars with &#CHAR_CODE;.

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Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

Browser: Firefox 78

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
EncodeByCreatingElement	681342.5 Ops/sec
EncodeUsingRegex	4353595.0 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:


<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/angular.js/1.6.5/angular.min.js'></script>

Script Preparation code:


function EncodeByCreatingElement(value) {
  var element = angular.element('<div></div>');
  element.text(value); // not chainable, see #1044
  return element.html();
}

var regex = /[\u00A0-\u9999<>\&]/g;
function EncodeUsingRegex(value) {
  return value.replace(regex, ['&#', "$&".charCodeAt(0),';'].join(''));
}

function getRandomUnicodeChar() {
  return String.fromCharCode(0x30A0 + Math.random() * (0x30FF-0x30A0+1));
}

Tests:

EncodeByCreatingElement
EncodeByCreatingElement(getRandomUnicodeChar())
EncodeUsingRegex
EncodeUsingRegex(getRandomUnicodeChar())