Run results for: createTextNode vs cloneNode

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:75.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/75.0

Browser: Firefox 75

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createTextNode	5.6 Ops/sec
cloneNode	5.2 Ops/sec

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; }