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JS: insertBefore vs appendChild vs prepend
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/147.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/147.0.0.0
Browser:
Chrome 147
Operating system:
Windows
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
5 days ago
Test name
Executions per second
insertBefore
30065.8 Ops/sec
appendChild
26264.3 Ops/sec
prepend
8851.1 Ops/sec
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) );
appendChild
paragraphs.forEach( p => container.appendChild(document.createElement(p)) );
prepend
paragraphs.forEach( p => container.prepend(document.createElement(p)) );