Run results for: createTextNode() vs cloneNode(false)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/147.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 147

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 months ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

createTextNode()

77/s

cloneNode(false)

25/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ createTextNode()	77 Ops/sec
cloneNode(false)	25 Ops/sec

Tests:

createTextNode()
var list = [], n = 0; while(true) { n++; list.push(document.createTextNode('hello, world!')); if(n===100000) break; }
cloneNode(false)
var list = [], n = 0, node = document.createTextNode('empty'); while(true) { n++; t = node.cloneNode(); t.textContent = 'hello, world'; list.push(t); if(n===100000) break; }