Benchmark: insertAdjacentText vs new Text vs createTextNode vs textContent

HTML Preparation code:

<style id="a"></style>
<style id="b"></style>
<style id="c"></style>
<style id="d"></style>

Script Preparation code:

let a = document.getElementById('a')
let b = document.getElementById('b')
let c = document.getElementById('c')
let d = document.getElementById('d')

Tests:

insertAdjacentText
a.insertAdjacentText('beforeend', 'p{color:red}')
new Text
b.appendChild(new Text('p{color:red}'))
createTextNode
c.appendChild(document.createTextNode('p{color:red}'))
textContent
d.textContent += 'p{color:red}'

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
insertAdjacentText
new Text
createTextNode
textContent

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 6 months ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/144.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 144 on Linux

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insertAdjacentText

936/s

textContent

855/s

new Text

825/s

createTextNode

815/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ insertAdjacentText	936 Ops/sec
textContent	855 Ops/sec
new Text	825 Ops/sec
createTextNode	815 Ops/sec

insertAdjacentText vs new Text vs createTextNode vs textContent (version: 1)

Comparing performance of: `insertAdjacentText vs new Text vs createTextNode vs textContent`

Created: 6 months ago by: Guest

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insertAdjacentText

new Text

createTextNode

textContent

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

insertAdjacentText vs new Text vs createTextNode vs textContent (version: 1)

Comparing performance of: insertAdjacentText vs new Text vs createTextNode vs textContent

Created: 6 months ago by: Guest

Go to the latest result

insertAdjacentText

new Text

createTextNode

textContent

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Comparing performance of: `insertAdjacentText vs new Text vs createTextNode vs textContent`