Run results for: createTextNode vs textContent vs innerText

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/2019.04 Iridium/2019.04 Safari/537.36 Chrome/73.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 73

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createTextNode	292268.6 Ops/sec
textContent	4944726.0 Ops/sec
innerText	1371931.0 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';