Run results for: createElement vs cloneNode(false)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/142.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 142

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 10 months ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

cloneNode

39/s

createElement

39/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ cloneNode	39 Ops/sec
createElement	39 Ops/sec

Tests:

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