Run results for: createElement vs cloneNode 2

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_7 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/26.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 26

Operating system: iOS 18.7

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 9 months ago

createElement

497K/s

cloneNode

169K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ createElement	497,014 Ops/sec
cloneNode	168,604 Ops/sec

Tests:

createElement
var list = [], n = 0; while(true) { n++; list.push(document.createElement('div')); if(n===10) break; }
cloneNode
var list = [], n = 0, node = document.createElement('div'); while(true) { n++; list.push(node.cloneNode(true)); if(n===11) break; }