.append VS .html VS [removed] performance

Question

This site\'s run a test between the 3 different methods and it seems .html is the fastest, followed by .append. followed by .innerHTML

Answer 1

How can .html be faster than .innerHTML when the .html is using .innerHTML with a lot of extra code? Here .html implementation in jQuery (taken directly from jQuery file).

html: function( value ) {
    return jQuery.access( this, function( value ) {
        var elem = this[0] || {},
            i = 0,
            l = this.length;

        if ( value === undefined ) {
            return elem.nodeType === 1 ?
                elem.innerHTML.replace( rinlinejQuery, "" ) :
                undefined;
        }

        // See if we can take a shortcut and just use innerHTML
        if ( typeof value === "string" && !rnoInnerhtml.test( value ) &&
            ( jQuery.support.htmlSerialize || !rnoshimcache.test( value )  ) &&
            ( jQuery.support.leadingWhitespace || !rleadingWhitespace.test( value ) ) &&
            !wrapMap[ ( rtagName.exec( value ) || ["", ""] )[1].toLowerCase() ] ) {

            value = value.replace( rxhtmlTag, "<$1>" );

            try {
                for (; i < l; i++ ) {
                    // Remove element nodes and prevent memory leaks
                    elem = this[i] || {};
                    if ( elem.nodeType === 1 ) {
                        jQuery.cleanData( getAll( elem, false ) );
                        elem.innerHTML = value;
                    }
                }

                elem = 0;

            // If using innerHTML throws an exception, use the fallback method
            } catch(e) {}
        }

        if ( elem ) {
            this.empty().append( value );
        }
    }, null, value, arguments.length );
}