Benchmark: createTextNode vs cloneNode

Tests:

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

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Previous results

Test case name	Result
createTextNode
cloneNode

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 2 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/100.0.4896.127 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 100 on Mac OS X 10.15.7

Test name	Executions per second
createTextNode	17.9 Ops/sec
cloneNode	10.0 Ops/sec

createTextNode vs cloneNode (version: 0)