Run results for: JS: insertBefore vs append vs prepend

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:146.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/146.0

Browser: Firefox 146

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 8 months ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

append

6K/s

insertBefore

5K/s

prepend

5K/s

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HTML Preparation code:

<div id="container"></div>

Script Preparation code:

var container = document.getElementById("container");
var paragraphs = new Array( 100 ).fill( 'p' );

Tests:

insertBefore
paragraphs.forEach( p => container.insertBefore( document.createElement( p ), null ) );
append
container.append( ...paragraphs.map( p => document.createElement( p ) ) );
prepend
paragraphs.forEach( p => container.prepend( document.createElement( p ) ) );