Run results for: Append vs. arraypush

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.130 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 79

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.1

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
append	464.6 Ops/sec
array push	215.8 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div class="wpProQuiz_tipp">
  <span class="character-hint">HALLO-DU</span>
</div>

<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.js'></script>

Tests:

append
let tippContainer = $('.wpProQuiz_tipp'); let tippWord = "HALLO-DU"; let tippChars = tippWord.split(""); for (let i = 0; i < tippChars.length; i++) { tippContainer.append('<span class="character">' + tippChars[i] + '</span>'); }
array push
let tippContainer = $('.wpProQuiz_tipp'); let tippWord = "HALLO-DU"; let tippChars = tippWord.split(""); var array = []; for (let i = 0; i < tippChars.length; i++) { array.push('<span class="character">' + tippChars[i] + '</span>'); } tippContainer.append(array);

Run results for: Append vs. arraypush

append

array push