Run results for: createElement vs cloneNode w/ 3 children

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:136.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/136.0

Browser: Firefox 136

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 21 days ago

Test name	Executions per second
createElement	5.1 Ops/sec
cloneNode	4.0 Ops/sec

Tests:

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