Run results for: createElement vs cloneNode

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_4 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/125.0.6422.80 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Chrome Mobile iOS 125

Operating system: iOS 17.4

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

cloneNode

93/s

createElement

64/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ cloneNode	93 Ops/sec
createElement	64 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; }

Run results for: createElement vs cloneNode

Faster way to create new dom elements before insertion

createElement

cloneNode