Run results for: createElement vs createElementNS

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0

Browser: Firefox 115

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createElement	962137.8 Ops/sec
createElementNS	841539.7 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div></div>

Tests:

createElement
const div = document.createElement('div') div.innerHTML = Math.random().toString(); return div.outerHTML;
createElementNS
const div = document.createElementNS('http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml', 'div') div.innerHTML = Math.random().toString(); return div.outerHTML;