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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 8.1.0; Pixel XL Build/OPM2.171019.029) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/66.0.3359.126 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 66

Operating system: Android 8.1.0

Device Platform: Pixel XL

Date tested: 6 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
jQuery(htmlstring)	3855.1 Ops/sec
jQuery.parseHTML(htmlstring)	712.6 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:

jQuery(htmlstring)
$(document.body).append($(htmlstring));
jQuery.parseHTML(htmlstring)
$(document.body).append($.parseHTML(htmlstring));