Run results for: xml vs json

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/145.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/145.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 145

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 6 months ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

Test name	Executions per second
✓ JSON	1,243,481 Ops/sec
XML	32,959 Ops/sec

Tests:

XML
const html = "<html><body><div>test</div></body></html>" const parser = new DOMParser(); const virtualDom = parser.parseFromString(html, 'text/html'); const body = virtualDom.querySelector('body');
JSON
const html = ` { "type": "element", "name": "html", "children": [ { "type": "element", "name": "body", "children": [ { "type": "element", "name": "div", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "test" } ] } ] } ] } `; const parsed = JSON.parse(html); const body = parsed.children[0]