Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/68.0.3440.106 Safari/537.36
Chrome 68
Windows
Desktop
6 years ago
Test name Executions per second
createTextNode 360409.9 Ops/sec
textContent 7864717.5 Ops/sec
innerText 3154221.5 Ops/sec
innerHTML 307369.9 Ops/sec
Script Preparation code:
AخA
 
var a = document.createElement('a');
Tests:
  • createTextNode

     
    a.appendChild(document.createTextNode('text'));
  • textContent

     
    a.textContent = 'text';
  • innerText

     
    a.innerText = 'text';
  • innerHTML

     
    a.innerHTML = 'text';