Run results for: JS: insertBefore vs prepend

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.1.2 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 14

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.14.6

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
insertBefore	1778633.0 Ops/sec
prepend	1947434.0 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests:

insertBefore
container.insertBefore(paragraph, container.firstChild);
prepend
container.prepend(paragraph);