Run results for: append vs appendChild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:147.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/147.0

Browser: Firefox 147

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 6 months ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

append

2K/s

appendChild

71/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ append	2,439 Ops/sec
appendChild	71 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

var container = document.getElementById("container");

Tests:

appendChild
for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++) { container.appendChild(document.createTextNode(i.toString())); }
append
var arr = [] for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++) { arr.push(i.toString()) } container.append(arr)