Run results for: append vs appendChild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/118.0

Browser: Firefox 118

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 7 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
appendChild	6577.3 Ops/sec
append	283352.3 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

var container = document.getElementById("container");

Tests:

appendChild
for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++) { container.appendChild(document.createTextNode(i.toString())); }
append
var arr = [] for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++) { arr.push(i.toString()) } container.append(arr)