jQuery appending an array of elements

Question

For the purpose of this question lets say we need to append() 1000 objects to the body element.

You could go about it like this:

Answer 1

If you're going for raw performance then I would suggest pure JS, though some would argue that your development performance is more important than your site's/program performance. Check this link for benchmarks and a showcase of different DOM insertion techniques.

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As a curiosity, documentFragment proves to be one of the slowest methods.