Run results for: createElement vs cloneNode v3

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:148.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/148.0

Browser: Firefox 148

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 months ago

cloneNode

122/s

createElement

70/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ cloneNode	122 Ops/sec
createElement	70 Ops/sec

Tests:

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