Run results for: CreateElement vs DOM Parser

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 126

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

CreateElement

213.9M/s

DOMParser

212.0M/s

CreateHTMLDocument

122.8M/s

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Script Preparation code:

var testString = '<body>' + Array(100001).join('<div>x</div>') + '</body>';

Tests:

CreateElement
function test_innerHTML() { var b = document.createElement('body'); b.innerHTML = testString; return b; }
CreateHTMLDocument
function test_createHTMLDocument() { var d = document.implementation.createHTMLDocument(''); d.body.innerHTML = testString; return d.body; }
DOMParser
function test_DOMParser() { return (new DOMParser).parseFromString(testString, 'text/html').body; }