Run results for: jquery - empty vs html

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:126.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/126.0

Browser: Firefox 126

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

innerHtml

30.7M/s

empty

11.4M/s

html

6.4M/s

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HTML Preparation code:

<div id="foo">foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar</div>
<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.js'></script>

Script Preparation code:

var foo = $("#foo");

Tests: