Run results for: toDom(this) vs mkDom(arg)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0

Browser: Firefox 61

Operating system: Windows 7

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
toDom	109536.2 Ops/sec
mkDom	147365.5 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var toDom = function(){var a=document.createElement("div");a.innerHTML=this;return a.firstChild}
var mkDom = function(s){var a=document.createElement("div");a.innerHTML=s;return a.firstChild}
var testString = "<div id='test'></div>";

Tests:

toDom
var d = toDom.apply(testString);
mkDom
var d = mkDom(testString);

Run results for: toDom(this) vs mkDom(arg)

This vs Arg for function input

toDom

mkDom