Run results for: createElement vs createElementNS

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 125

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

createElement

118K/s

createElementNS

111K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ createElement	118,160 Ops/sec
createElementNS	110,576 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div></div>

Tests:

createElement
const div = document.createElement('div') div.innerHTML = Math.random().toString(); return div.outerHTML;
createElementNS
const div = document.createElementNS('http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml', 'div') div.innerHTML = Math.random().toString(); return div.outerHTML;