As a result of the SAU/Prototype performance thread, here comes an enhanced version of our String.escapeHTML that caches created nodes (both the DIV and the textNode).
Testbed is available here: http://gfx.neohub.com/benchmark/t/escapeHTML.html
Here are the consolidated results:
Benchmarks run using 10000 iterations on these browsers:
A. Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061222 Firefox/2.0.0.1
B. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1
C. Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
D. Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1
E. Opera/9.10 (X11; Linux i686; U; en)
F. Opera/9.10 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)
G. Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; FDM)
H. Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)
I. Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/312.8.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/312.6
J. Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/418 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/417.9.2
K. Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.5; Linux) KHTML/3.5.5 (like Gecko)
Method execution rate (per second) per browser:
Method AVG A B C D E F G H I J K
Prototype.oneDiv2 23247.64 8170 14881 6588 16667 51020 72464 13405 10953 13477 39841 8258
String.split 15701.09 10163 14164 6954 17241 27322 42553 9681 10373 1730 27548 4983
String.replace 12587.09 15175 8418 10526 32051 6739 7210 15699 15949 1604 20619 4468
String.replaceMap 10634.55 8905 8540 6540 15221 9699 8772 12804 16584 1694 24213 4008
Prototype 8887.82 3197 5666 3162 8803 17094 19305 4182 4704 3598 24096 3959
Prototype.oneDiv 8098.36 2548 4292 1826 6017 16529 16892 5005 5283 5851 20833 4006
TOP method:
Method AVG A B C D E F G H I J K
Prototype.oneDiv2 1.91 4 1 3 3 1 1 2 3 1 1 1
String.split 2.55 2 2 2 2 2 2 4 4 4 2 2
String.replace 3.36 1 4 1 1 6 6 1 2 6 6 3
String.replaceMap 3.64 3 3 4 4 5 5 3 1 5 3 4
Prototype 4.64 5 5 5 5 3 3 6 6 3 4 6
Prototype.oneDiv 4.91 6 6 6 6 4 4 5 5 2 5 5
