Run results for: appendChild vs append vs map/append vs DocumentFragment

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:141.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/141.0

Browser: Firefox 141

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

Tests:

appendChild
const ul = document.createElement('ul'); for (const d of '123456') { const li = document.createElement('li'); li.textContent = d; ul.appendChild(li); }
append
const ul = document.createElement('ul'); for (const d of '123456') { const li = document.createElement('li'); li.textContent = d; ul.append(li); }
map/append
const ul = document.createElement('ul'); const lis = Array.from('123456').map((d) => { const li = document.createElement('li'); li.textContent = d; return li; }); ul.append(...lis);
DocumentFragment
const ul = document.createElement('ul'); const fragment = new DocumentFragment(); for (const d of '123456') { const li = document.createElement('li'); li.textContent = d; fragment.append(li); } ul.append(fragment);