createElement vs cloneNode for template (version: 1)

Faster way to create new dom elements before insertion

Comparing performance of: createElement vs cloneNode

Created: one year ago by: Guest
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Tests:

Historical Performance Data aggregated from 5 community runs

Desktop Results:
Chrome 5 runs
createElement
93/s
cloneNode
80/s

Fastest: createElement (1.2x faster)

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  • ✓ createElement: 93 ops/sec
  • • cloneNode: 80 ops/sec

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Previous results
  • Test case name Result
    createElement
    cloneNode

    Fastest: N/A

    Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:
Run details: (Test run date: 7 months ago)
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/143.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Chrome 143 on Mac OS X 10.15.7
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createElement
113/s
cloneNode
90/s
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Test name Executions per second
✓ createElement 113 Ops/sec
cloneNode 90 Ops/sec

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