Run results for: textContent vs. innerText vs. nodeValue

Compare the performance of different ways of setting text.

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Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/134.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/134.0.0.0
Chrome 134
Windows
Desktop
one year ago
set same value if changed via nodeValue
15.5M/s
set different value if changed via nodeValue
14.1M/s
set same value if changed via textContent
9.7M/s
set different value if changed via textContent
9.2M/s
set different value via textContext
6.7M/s
set same value via textContent
6.2M/s
set same value via nodeValue
4.2M/s
set different value via nodeValue
3.0M/s
set different value via innerText
1.7M/s
set same value via innerText
1.6M/s
set different value if changed via innerText
720K/s
set same value if changed via innerText
716K/s
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Test name Executions per second
✓ set same value if changed via nodeValue 15,540,349 Ops/sec
set different value if changed via nodeValue 14,134,544 Ops/sec
set same value if changed via textContent 9,741,445 Ops/sec
set different value if changed via textContent 9,172,154 Ops/sec
set different value via textContext 6,650,270 Ops/sec
set same value via textContent 6,186,312 Ops/sec
set same value via nodeValue 4,202,700 Ops/sec
set different value via nodeValue 2,993,717 Ops/sec
set different value via innerText 1,716,834 Ops/sec
set same value via innerText 1,613,896 Ops/sec
set different value if changed via innerText 720,021 Ops/sec
set same value if changed via innerText 716,280 Ops/sec
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