Benchmark: JS: append vs appendChild

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

var container = document.getElementById("container");
var paragraph = document.createElement("p");

Tests:

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Previous results

Test case name	Result
append
appendChild

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 12 days ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 123 on Windows

Test name	Executions per second
append	262336.9 Ops/sec
appendChild	320582.5 Ops/sec

JS: append vs appendChild (version: 0)