Run results for: jQuery: insertBefore vs append

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/112.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 112

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 10 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
insertBefore	1232.3 Ops/sec
append	1100.5 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.js'></script>
<div id='container'>
    <div id='reference'>
    </div>
</div>

Tests:

insertBefore
for(var i=0; i<100; i++){ var p = $(document.createElement("p")); p.insertBefore("#reference"); }
append
for(var i=0; i<100; i++){ var p = $(document.createElement("p")); $("#container").append(p); }