Run results for: createElement vs createContextualFragment

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.122 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 81

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.3

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createElement	142968.8 Ops/sec
createContextualFragment	140114.8 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div></div>

Tests:

createElement
const div = document.createElement('div') div.innerHTML = 'Hello'; return div.outerHTML;
createContextualFragment
const frag = document.createRange().createContextualFragment(`<div>Hello</div>`); const domNode = frag.firstElementChild; return domNode.outerHTML;