Benchmark: JQuery new div element with class - 1k reps

HTML Preparation code:

<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.js'></script>

Tests:

JQuery - direct + class
var list = [], n = 0; var newDiv = function(){ return $('<div class="test">'); } while(true) { n++; list.push(newDiv()); if(n===1000) break; }
JQuery - cloneNode + class
var list = [], n = 0, node = document.createElement('div'); var newDiv = function(){ var newNode = node.cloneNode(false); node.className = [].slice.call(arguments).join(' '); return $(node); } while(true) { n++; list.push(newDiv("test")); if(n===1000) break; }

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Previous results

Test case name	Result
JQuery - direct + class
JQuery - cloneNode + class

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 3 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko

Browser/OS: IE 11 on Windows

Test name	Executions per second
JQuery - direct + class	3.4 Ops/sec
JQuery - cloneNode + class	261.0 Ops/sec

JQuery new div element with class - 1k reps (version: 0)