Re: Optimize setting textContent?

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Adam Klein <adamk@chromium.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 5:47 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
> wrote:
> > In https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725221 roc (cc'd, not
> > subscribed to the list) suggests optimizing textContent by special casing
> > the scenario where the first child is a text node and the string being
> set
> > is non-empty. This would affect mutation observers and makes the setting
> > algorithm more complicated, but it is also a performance win (in some
> > implementations at least). Opinions?
>
> From the mutation observers point of view, I've got two opinions. I'd
> be ok with "if the _only_ child is a text node, replace its contents
> instead of removing it and creating a new text node".
>

That would be fine.

Rob
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