Run results for: createTextNode vs textContent vs innerText vs append vs new Text - MeasureThat.net

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:123.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/123.0

Browser: Firefox 123

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 10 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
createTextNode	1374750.4 Ops/sec
textContent	1997001.4 Ops/sec
innerText	1185901.6 Ops/sec
append	2284656.0 Ops/sec
new text	1733862.0 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';
append
a.append('text');
new text
a.appendChild(new Text('text'));

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