Run results for: createElement vs createElementNS

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/143.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/143.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 143

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 8 months ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

createElement

527K/s

createElementNS

495K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ createElement	527,093 Ops/sec
createElementNS	494,504 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;