Run results for: createTextNode vs textContent vs innerText vs nodeValue

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/98.0.4758.104 Whale/3.13.131.36 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 98

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createTextNode	1201998.0 Ops/sec
textContent	3518663.0 Ops/sec
innerText	1788353.0 Ops/sec
nodeValue	6624690.0 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';
nodeValue
a.nodeValue = 'text';