Run results for: JS: append vs appendChild multiple elements

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 16_5_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.5.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 16

Operating system: iOS 16.5.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
append	1121963.1 Ops/sec
appendChild	1349482.5 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

var container = document.getElementById("container");
var paragraph = document.createElement("p");
var paragraph1 = document.createElement("p");
var paragraph2 = document.createElement("p");
var paragraph3 = document.createElement("p");

Tests:

append
container.append(paragraph,paragraph1,paragraph2,paragraph3);
appendChild
container.appendChild(paragraph); container.appendChild(paragraph1); container.appendChild(paragraph2); container.appendChild(paragraph3);