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 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 131

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
append	260.8 Ops/sec
prepend	260.7 Ops/sec
insertBefore	6.4 Ops/sec
appendChild	309.4 Ops/sec
insertAdjacentElement	304.8 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]); }