Run results for: jquery vs vanilla js

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.86 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 73

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.14.2

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
vanilla js	1142877.5 Ops/sec
jquery script	172488.6 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="foo">Hello World</div>

Tests:

vanilla js
var el = document.getElementById("foo"); el.innerText = "New Hello World";
jquery script
$("#foo").text("New Hello World");