Run results for: innerText vs createTextNode

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.88 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 79

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.2

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
innerText	690784.6 Ops/sec
createTextNode	1226672.9 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

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

Script Preparation code:

var fragment = document.createDocumentFragment();
var text = 'Text node';

 
var fragment = document.createDocumentFragment();var text = 'Text node';

Tests:

innerText
var el = document.createElement('span'); el.innerText = text; fragment.appendChild(el);
var el = document.createElement('span');
el.innerText = text;
fragment.appendChild(el);
createTextNode
const content = document.createTextNode(text) fragment.appendChild(content)
const content = document.createTextNode(text)
fragment.appendChild(content)