Run results for: JQuery: append vs appendTo

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:86.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/86.0

Browser: Firefox 86

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
$("<option/>", {text: "potato", value: "potato").appendTo($foods);	14410.2 Ops/sec
$foods.append($("<options/>", {text: "potato", value: "potato"});	16596.2 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<select id="foods"></select>

<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.js'></script>

Script Preparation code:

var $foods = $("#foods");

Tests:

$("<option/>", {text: "potato", value: "potato").appendTo($foods);
$("<option/>", {text: "potato", value: "potato"}).appendTo($foods);
$foods.append($("<options/>", {text: "potato", value: "potato"});
$foods.append($("<options/>", {text: "potato", value: "potato"}));