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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.0.2 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 13

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
jQuery	7.9 Ops/sec
HE	0.8 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); }