Run results for: JS: append vs prepend vs insertBefore vs appendChild vs insertAdjacentElement in a populated table

The similar tests I found here "test" adding one single node to another singe node. Those tests are quite useless for real world situations. The use case here is that the rows array is sorted (not included) and then the table is restructured accordingly.

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 131

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

appendChild

75/s

insertAdjacentElement

71/s

append

60/s

prepend

53/s

insertBefore

4/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ appendChild	75 Ops/sec
insertAdjacentElement	71 Ops/sec
append	60 Ops/sec
prepend	53 Ops/sec
insertBefore	4 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<table><tbody id="body"></tbody></table>

Script Preparation code:

var rows = [];
for (var i = 0; i < 10000; ++i) {
    var row = document.createElement("tr");
    var cell = document.createElement("td");
    cell.appendChild(document.createTextNode(i));
    row.appendChild(cell);
    body.appendChild(row);
    rows.push(row);
}
var nodes = body.childNodes;

Tests:

append
for (var i = 0; i < 10000; ++i) { body.append(rows[i]); }
prepend
for (var i = 0; i < 10000; ++i) { body.prepend(rows[i]); }
insertBefore
for (var i = 0; i < 10000; ++i) { body.insertBefore(rows[9999 - i], nodes[i]); }
appendChild
for (var i = 0; i < 10000; ++i) { body.appendChild(rows[i]); }
insertAdjacentElement
for (var i = 0; i < 10000; ++i) { body.insertAdjacentElement("beforeend",rows[i]); }