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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:74.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/74.0

Browser: Firefox 74

Operating system: Windows 7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
blankAudioElement.cloneNode()	141.9 Ops/sec
document.createElement("audio")	122.5 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");