Run results for: createElement vs createElementNS

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

createElement

274K/s

createElementNS

271K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ createElement	274,071 Ops/sec
createElementNS	271,137 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div></div>

Tests:

createElement
const div = document.createElement('div') div.innerHTML = Math.random().toString(); return div.outerHTML;
createElementNS
const div = document.createElementNS('http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml', 'div') div.innerHTML = Math.random().toString(); return div.outerHTML;