Benchmark: createElement vs cloneNode()

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()); if(n===100000) break; }

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Previous results

Test case name	Result
createElement
cloneNode

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 4 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.130 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 79 on Mac OS X 10.15.3

Test name	Executions per second
createElement	17.8 Ops/sec
cloneNode	24.9 Ops/sec

createElement vs cloneNode() (version: 0)