Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/11.1.2 Safari/605.1.15
Safari 11
Mac OS X 10.11.6
Desktop
6 years ago
Test name Executions per second
createTextNode 2511.6 Ops/sec
textContent 1394674.2 Ops/sec
innerText 1329133.4 Ops/sec
innerHTML 193611.7 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';