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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0

Browser: Firefox 52

Operating system: Windows XP

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
element.textContent	342660.0 Ops/sec
node.textContent	440410.5 Ops/sec
node.nodeValue	451340.1 Ops/sec
node.data	431085.7 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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