Run results for: append vs appendChild + createTextNode

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.163 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 80

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
append	158825.9 Ops/sec
appendChild + createTextNode	85674.6 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

var container = document.getElementById("container")

Tests:

append
container.append("text")
appendChild + createTextNode
container.appendChild(document.createTextNode("text"))