Run results for: Node.nodeValue vs textNode.data

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.2.1 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 17

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

node.data

353.9M/s

Node.nodeValue

166.2M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ node.data	353,946,560 Ops/sec
Node.nodeValue	166,150,960 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var node = document.createTextNode(' ');
var i = 10000;

Tests: