Run results for: document.createElement vs jQuery

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 124

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

vanilla js

723K/s

jquery js

179K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ vanilla js	722,997 Ops/sec
jquery js	178,615 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:


<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.js'></script>

Tests:

jquery js
let element = jQuery('<div class="first second third fourth"/>')
vanilla js
let element = document.createElement('div'); element.classList.add("first", "second", "third", "fourth");