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 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/141.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Chrome 141
Linux
Desktop
9 months ago
set same value if changed via nodeValue
31.5M/s
set different value if changed via nodeValue
29.7M/s
set different value if changed via textContent
19.5M/s
set same value if changed via textContent
15.1M/s
set same value via nodeValue
9.5M/s
set different value via nodeValue
7.0M/s
set different value via innerText
1.5M/s
set same value if changed via innerText
1.5M/s
set different value if changed via innerText
1.4M/s
set different value via textContext
1.4M/s
set same value via innerText
1.3M/s
set same value via textContent
972K/s
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Test name Executions per second
✓ set same value if changed via nodeValue 31,514,298 Ops/sec
set different value if changed via nodeValue 29,688,290 Ops/sec
set different value if changed via textContent 19,460,706 Ops/sec
set same value if changed via textContent 15,093,177 Ops/sec
set same value via nodeValue 9,530,914 Ops/sec
set different value via nodeValue 6,985,560 Ops/sec
set different value via innerText 1,520,806 Ops/sec
set same value if changed via innerText 1,455,235 Ops/sec
set different value if changed via innerText 1,404,455 Ops/sec
set different value via textContext 1,378,611 Ops/sec
set same value via innerText 1,307,500 Ops/sec
set same value via textContent 972,141 Ops/sec
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