Run results for: createTextNode vs nodeValue

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/130.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 130

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

createTextNode("test")

1.8M/s

createTextNode("")

1.6M/s

createTextNode(null)

1.3M/s

createTextNode(undefined)

995K/s

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Script Preparation code:

var node = document.createTextNode("test");

Tests:

createTextNode("test")
var node = document.createTextNode("test");
createTextNode("")
var node = document.createTextNode(""); node.nodeValue = "test";
createTextNode(null)
var node = document.createTextNode(null); node.nodeValue = "test";
createTextNode(undefined)
var node = document.createTextNode(undefined); node.nodeValue = "test";