Run results for: createElement vs jquery

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/134.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 134

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

createElement

32/s

jquery

2/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ createElement	32 Ops/sec
jquery	2 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Tests:

createElement
var list = [], n = 0; while(true) { n++; var el = document.createElement('div'); el.setAttribute ("data-var1", "1"); el.setAttribute ("data-var2", "2"); list.push(el); if(n===100000) break; }
jquery
var list = [], n = 0; while(true) { n++; var el= $('<div data-var1 = "1" data-var2="2">'); list.push(el); if(n===100000) break; }