Run results for: append vs appendChild + createTextNode

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0

Browser: Firefox 62

Operating system: Windows 7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
append	469464.0 Ops/sec
appendChild + createTextNode	352529.3 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"))