Run results for: createTextNode vs textContent vs innerText

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_0_4 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0 Mobile/11B554a Safari/9537.53

Browser: Mobile Safari 7

Operating system: iOS 7.0.4

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 6 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createTextNode	47027.7 Ops/sec
textContent	73519.8 Ops/sec
innerText	181044.2 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';