Run results for: jQuery vs HE (html entities) lib v3

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3770.142 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 75

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
jQuery	7.4 Ops/sec
HE	61.3 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/jquery@2.2.4/dist/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/he@1.2.0/he.min.js"></script>

Script Preparation code:

var testVal = "a&quot;s&quot;d &amp; qwe";

Tests:

jQuery
for(var i = 0; i<9999; i++){ $('<div/>').html(testVal).text(); }
HE
for(var i = 0; i<9999; i++){ he.decode(testVal); }