Benchmark: JS: append vs appendChild for multiple children

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="container"></div>

Script Preparation code:

var container = document.getElementById("container");
var p1 = document.createElement("p");
var p2 = document.createElement("p");
var p3 = document.createElement("p");
var p4 = document.createElement("p");
var paragraphs = [p1, p2, p3, p4];

Tests:

append
container.append(...paragraphs);
appendChild
for (const p of paragraphs) { container.appendChild(p); }
appendChild (unrolled)
container.appendChild(p1); container.appendChild(p2); container.appendChild(p3); container.appendChild(p4);

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
append
appendChild
appendChild (unrolled)

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: one year ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/107.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 107 on Mac OS X 10.15.7

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Test name	Executions per second
append	703009.4 Ops/sec
appendChild	855817.4 Ops/sec
appendChild (unrolled)	780617.4 Ops/sec

JS: append vs appendChild for multiple children (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: append vs appendChild vs appendChild (unrolled)

Created: one year ago by: Registered User

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append

appendChild

appendChild (unrolled)

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A