This is changing behavior for performance reasons, which I think is almost always a bad idea. Yes it's better to use the DOM, but is setting a node's text real

This is changing behavior for performance reasons, which I think is almost always a bad idea. Yes it's better to use the DOM, but is setting a node's text really all that much different than setting the document's text? We should really be talking about scope (which nodes are changed) not method. I'm concerned that adding things like timeouts to rendering logic will make rendering nondeterministic.