Benchmark: createElement vs cloneNode vs cloneNode(false)

Tests:

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

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Run details: (Test run date: one year ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/102.0.5005.63 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 102 on Windows

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