Run results for: createTextNode vs textContent vs innerText vs append vs new Text - MeasureThat.net

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:136.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/136.0

Browser: Firefox 136

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one month ago

Test name	Executions per second
createTextNode	1769257.4 Ops/sec
textContent	7991908.5 Ops/sec
innerText	1829917.8 Ops/sec
append	3024144.5 Ops/sec
new text	2320011.8 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';
append
a.append('text');
new text
a.appendChild(new Text('text'));