Run results for: createTextNode vs textContent vs innerText vs innerHTML

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.163 Safari/537.36 Edg/80.0.361.111

Browser: Chrome 80

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.4

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createTextNode	1120653.0 Ops/sec
textContent	5055686.0 Ops/sec
innerText	1506991.0 Ops/sec
innerHTML	218068.8 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var a = document.createElement('a');

Tests:

createTextNode
a.appendChild(document.createTextNode('text'));
textContent
a.textContent = 'text';
innerText
a.innerText = 'text';
innerHTML
a.innerHTML = 'text';