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createElement vs cloneNode vs JQuery
Faster way to create new dom elements before insertion
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<iframe src="https://measurethat.net/Embed?id=516766" width="100%" height="500px"></iframe>
Run details:
User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_4_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.4.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1
Browser:
Mobile Safari 17
Operating system:
iOS 17.4.1
Device Platform:
Mobile
Date tested:
2 years ago
Benchmark engine:
Benchmark.js
cloneNode
88/s
createElement
59/s
JQuery(cloneNode)
38/s
JQuery
18/s
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Test name
Executions per second
✓
cloneNode
88 Ops/sec
createElement
59 Ops/sec
JQuery(cloneNode)
38 Ops/sec
JQuery
18 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; }