Run results for: jQuery(htmlstring) vs jQuery.parseHTML(htmlstring)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko

Browser: IE 11

Operating system: Windows 8.1

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 6 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
jQuery(htmlstring)	2577.6 Ops/sec
jQuery.parseHTML(htmlstring)	945.5 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

htmlstring = '<div class="pie"><a href="example.com"></div><br><p>blah</p><div class="something"><p>content</p></div>'

Tests: