Run results for: textContent vs append v11

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:134.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/134.0

Browser: Firefox 134

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

append

342K/s

textContent

266K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ append	341,730 Ops/sec
textContent	265,582 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id='one'></div>

Tests:

append
let theDiv = document.getElementById('one'), theDivText = document.createTextNode("one"); theDiv.textContent = ''; theDiv.append(theDivText);
textContent
let theDiv = document.getElementById('one'), theDivText = document.createTextNode("one"); theDiv.textContent = ''; theDiv.textContent = 'one';