Run results for: JS: append vs appendChild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_1_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.1.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 17

Operating system: iOS 17.1.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
append	2448656.0 Ops/sec
appendChild	2493477.5 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

var container = document.getElementById("container");
var paragraph = document.createElement("p");

Tests:

append
container.append(paragraph);
appendChild
container.appendChild(paragraph);