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Question of the day (someone asked me this). Is it more performant for a script to populate a free text field or a dropdown list? Both fields will source.

its probably easier to measure it yourself

especially if the dropdown has enough options to bring up the search box

I have a feeling the answer will be trivial or not even  measurable

id only expect you to notice in the ui, where setting the select option has to do a server call to check if the option is valid

i doubt any other scenario really matters