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createElement vs cloneNode 2
Faster way to create new dom elements before insertion
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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:
6 months ago
Test name
Executions per second
createElement
497013.6 Ops/sec
cloneNode
168603.8 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; }