Run results for: append vs appendChild + createTextNode

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/86.0.4240.183 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 86

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.14.4

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
append	139885.3 Ops/sec
appendChild + createTextNode	158578.9 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

var container = document.getElementById("container")

Tests:

append
container.append("text")
appendChild + createTextNode
container.appendChild(document.createTextNode("text"))