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createElement vs cloneNode vs JQuery
Faster way to create new dom elements before insertion
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/121.0.0.0
Browser:
Chrome 121
Operating system:
Windows
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
2 years ago
Benchmark engine:
Benchmark.js
cloneNode
39/s
createElement
27/s
JQuery(cloneNode)
17/s
JQuery
12/s
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Test name
Executions per second
✓
cloneNode
39 Ops/sec
createElement
27 Ops/sec
JQuery(cloneNode)
17 Ops/sec
JQuery
12 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.js'></script>
Tests:
createElement
var list = [], n = 0; while(true) { n++; list.push(document.createElement('div')); if(n===100000) break; }
cloneNode
var list = [], n = 0, node = document.createElement('div'); while(true) { n++; list.push(node.cloneNode(true)); if(n===100000) break; }
JQuery
var list = [], n = 0; while(true) { n++; list.push($('<div>')); if(n===100000) break; }
JQuery(cloneNode)
var list = [], n = 0, node = document.createElement('div'); while(true) { n++; list.push($(node.cloneNode(true))); if(n===100000) break; }