Run results for: createElement vs cloneNode

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/84.0.4147.125 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 84

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createElement	8.5 Ops/sec
cloneNode	17.0 Ops/sec

Tests:

createElement
var list = [], n = 0; while(true) { n++; list.push(document.createElement('div')); if(n===100000) break; }
cloneNode
var list = [], n = 0, node = document.createElement('div'); while(true) { n++; list.push(node.cloneNode(true)); if(n===100000) break; }