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Run results for:
createTextNode vs textContent vs innerText vs append vs new Text
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Run details:
User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/136.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Browser:
Chrome 136
Operating system:
Mac OS X 10.15.7
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
one year ago
textContent
8.8M/s
new text
3.0M/s
createTextNode
2.6M/s
innerText
2.2M/s
append
1.9M/s
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Test name
Executions per second
✓
textContent
8,842,286 Ops/sec
new text
2,958,195 Ops/sec
createTextNode
2,601,867 Ops/sec
innerText
2,201,823 Ops/sec
append
1,923,999 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'));