Run results for: jquery - empty vs html

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/135.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 135

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

innerHtml

46.7M/s

empty

11.2M/s

html

5.3M/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: