Run results for: JS: append vs appendChild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:87.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/87.0

Browser: Firefox 87

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
append	2306815.2 Ops/sec
appendChild	2617085.5 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

var container = document.getElementById("container");
var paragraph = document.createElement("p");

Tests: