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Clone Vs Create element
Test speed difference between creating a small element tree repeatedly vs creating it once and cloning it.
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Browser:
Chrome 120
Operating system:
Windows
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
2 years ago
Test name
Executions per second
createElement
3.4 Ops/sec
cloneNode
13.4 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
<div id="home"></div>
Tests:
createElement
var list = [], n = 0; while(true) { n++; var r = document.createElement('div'); var s1 = document.createElement('div'); var s2 = document.createElement('div'); s1.classList.add('one', 'two', 'three'); s2.classList.add('one', 'two', 'three'); r.appendChild(s1); r.appendChild(s2); list.push(r); if(n===100000) break; }
cloneNode
var list = [], n = 0; var r = document.createElement('div'); var s1 = document.createElement('div'); var s2 = document.createElement('div'); s1.classList.add('one', 'two', 'three'); s2.classList.add('one', 'two', 'three'); r.appendChild(s1); r.appendChild(s2); while(true) { n++; var rprime = r.cloneNode(true); list.push(rprime); if(n===100000) break; }