Run results for: document.createElement("audio") vs. blankAudioElement.cloneNode()

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.129 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 81

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
blankAudioElement.cloneNode()	50.0 Ops/sec
document.createElement("audio")	66.2 Ops/sec

Tests:

blankAudioElement.cloneNode()
var audio = document.createElement("audio"); var output = new Array(1000); for (var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) output[i] = audio.cloneNode();
document.createElement("audio")
var output = new Array(1000); for (var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) output[i] = document.createElement("audio");