The test page contains extraneous CSS that will affect the outcome of the tests, including a @font-face declaration (yikes). Also, given the extremely low time

The test page contains extraneous CSS that will affect the outcome of the tests, including a @font-face declaration (yikes). Also, given the extremely low times in question here and the lack of iterations, JS-based profiling using Date objects may give an inaccurate picture of the differences between techniques.