Run results for: createElement vs cloneNode

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:145.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/145.0

Browser: Firefox 145

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 8 months ago

cloneNode

78/s

createElement

40/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ cloneNode	78 Ops/sec
createElement	40 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(true)); if(n===100000) break; }