Run results for: createElement vs cloneNode v3

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 15_8_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.8 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1 Ddg/15.8

Browser: Mobile Safari 15

Operating system: iOS 15.8.3

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
createElement	21.3 Ops/sec
cloneNode	7.6 Ops/sec

Tests:

createElement
var list = [], n = 0; while(true) { n++; list.push(document.createTextNode('div')); if(n===100000) break; }
cloneNode
var list = [], n = 0, node = document.createTextNode('div'); while(true) { n++; list.push(node.cloneNode(false)); if(n===100000) break; }

Run results for: createElement vs cloneNode v3

Faster way to create new dom elements before insertion

createElement

cloneNode