Run results for: createTextNode vs textContent vs innerText vs innerHTML

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 16_6 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) EdgiOS/127.0.2651.102 Version/16.0 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 16

Operating system: iOS 16.6

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 4 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
createTextNode	3729.9 Ops/sec
textContent	6046289.5 Ops/sec
innerText	5139966.5 Ops/sec
innerHTML	1497470.2 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';
innerHTML
a.innerHTML = 'text';