Form Access Timing

This page contains a deeply nested form and a lot of elements with ID's. It then times accesses to the form using document.forms and document.getElementById.

Number of iterations:

Idle loop: ms avg (subtracted from the following results)

Using document.forms['formName']: ms avg

Using document.getElementById('formName'): ms avg

A paragraph containing a span, and a span, and a span, and a span, and a span, and a span, and a span, and a span, and a span, and a span, and a span, and a span, and a span, and a span, and a span, and a span, and a span, and a span, and a span, and a span, and a span, and a span, and a span, and a span, and a span, and a span, and a span, all with id's.

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the form called "name"
A lot of other forms (each input is one form):
Lasse Reichstein Nielsen

Last modified: Thu May 06 20:59:12 Romance Daylight Time 2004