Run results for: createTextNode vs textContent vs innerText

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 12_4_6 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/12.1.2 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 12

Operating system: iOS 12.4.6

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createTextNode	3271.5 Ops/sec
textContent	444001.9 Ops/sec
innerText	485169.9 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var a = document.createElement('a');

Tests:

createTextNode
a.appendChild(document.createTextNode('text'));
textContent
a.textContent = 'text';
innerText
a.innerText = 'text';