Run results for: createElement vs createContextualFragment

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.1 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 13

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.13.6

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createElement	340762.8 Ops/sec
createContextualFragment	224855.1 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;