Run results for: div vs svg

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:146.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/146.0

Browser: Firefox 146

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 9 months ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

svg text

1452.9M/s

div set text

2.7M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ svg text	1,452,913,664 Ops/sec
div set text	2,729,846 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var div = document.createElement("div");
const svg1 = document.createElementNS("http://www.w3.org/2000/svg", "svg");

// set width and height
svg1.setAttribute("width", "100");
svg1.setAttribute("height", "100");

var svgText = document.createElementNS("http://www.w3.org/2000/svg", "text");

Tests:

div set text
div.innerText = "Testing, 1 2 3"
svg text
svgText.innerText = "Testing, 1 2 3"