Run results for: JS: append vs appendChild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 11_3_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.90 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 89

Operating system: Mac OS X 11.3.0

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
append	1245277.0 Ops/sec
appendChild	1349528.0 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: