442348 - [meta] Make setting innerHTML faster

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

Meta-ness split out of bug 386769.

Comment 1

[Owen Swerkstrom]

Note: This is a regression, and is NOT platform-specific.  FF3 is much faster at setting innerHTML than FF3.5, on at least MacOSX and Linux.


The longer version:

Setting innerHTML was pretty fast in FF3, but in 3.5 it is extremely sluggish, even compared to IE(!).  I (and many others, I would think) use innerHTML all over, precisely because it is so much faster than direct DOM building in many browsers (IE is particularly slow with DOM).

I'm sorry I don't have enough time or knowledge about FF's code to dive in and look for bottlenecks, but I can say for certain that in my use case, FF3's innerHTML setting was something like an order of magnitude faster than FF3.5's.

Comment 2

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

(In reply to comment #1)
> FF3's
> innerHTML setting was something like an order of magnitude faster than FF3.5's.
If you have a testcase (hopefully *minimal* testcase) for this, please file
a new bug, attach the testcase, and make that bug block this one.

Comment 3

[Owen Swerkstrom]

I was wrong!  In putting together a test case, I found out the slowness was not from setting innerHTML, but from FF3.5's slower rendering of "float"ed elements.  This slowness led me to restyle without float abuse, which is a good thing.

So there might be a legitimate bug about float elements rendering slower than in FF3 (in my case, many stacked "float: left;" elements which are now "display: inline-block") but I don't care enough to file it.

Anyway I fully retract my previous comment; as far as I can tell, FF3.5's innerHTML-setting is fast and lovely, as long as evil floats are avoided.

Comment 4

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472046

Move all DOM bugs that haven't been updated in more than 3 years and has no one currently assigned to P5.

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