Run results for: HTML Escape textContent vs replace

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 131

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
textContent	1043360.6 Ops/sec
replace	1387305.4 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var toEscape = `ab<div id="a" class='sasa'>asa</div>`;
var result = '';

Tests:

textContent
var div = document.createElement('div'); div.textContent = toEscape; result = div.innerHTML;
replace
var map = { '&': '&', '<': '<', '>': '>', '"': '"', "'": ''' }; result = toEscape.replace(/[&<>"']/g, function(m) { return map[m]; });