Run results for: jQuery .append() vs .appendTo()

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/117.0

Browser: Firefox 117

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 8 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
.append()	409575.4 Ops/sec
.appendTo()	382553.6 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<span id="message">. Bienvenue sur le site web</span>
<p id="salutation">Bonjour</p>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.1.min.js"></script>

Tests:

.append()
$("#salutation").append($("#message"));
.appendTo()
$("#message").appendTo("#salutation");