Run results for: createTextNode vs textContent vs innerText vs innerHTML

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_5 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/127.0.6533.77 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Chrome Mobile iOS 127

Operating system: iOS 17.5

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
createTextNode	4435.4 Ops/sec
textContent	4433690.5 Ops/sec
innerText	4330895.0 Ops/sec
innerHTML	2285452.8 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var a = document.createElement('a');

Tests:

createTextNode
a.appendChild(document.createTextNode('text'));
textContent
a.textContent = 'text';
innerText
a.innerText = 'text';
innerHTML
a.innerHTML = 'text';