Run results for: textContent vs nodeValue vs data - MeasureThat.net

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:121.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/121.0

Browser: Firefox 121

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 10 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
element.textContent	3216184.0 Ops/sec
node.textContent	3076233.5 Ops/sec
node.nodeValue	3369998.8 Ops/sec
node.data	3149406.0 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="el"> </div>

Script Preparation code:

var a = document.querySelector('#el');

Tests:

element.textContent
a.textContent = Math.random();
node.textContent
a.firstChild.textContent = Math.random();
node.nodeValue
a.firstChild.nodeValue = Math.random();
node.data
a.firstChild.data = Math.random();

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