Run results for: jquery - empty vs html

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 OPR/116.0.0.0

Browser: Opera 116

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

innerHtml

2.5M/s

empty

1.1M/s

html

637K/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: