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createElement vs cloneNode
Faster way to create new dom elements before insertion
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 14541.0.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Browser:
Chrome 120
Operating system:
Chrome OS 14541.0.0
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
2 years ago
cloneNode
17/s
createElement
9/s
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cloneNode
17 Ops/sec
createElement
9 Ops/sec
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; }