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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0

Browser: Firefox 52

Operating system: Windows XP

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 6 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
jQuery(htmlstring)	6867.0 Ops/sec
jQuery.parseHTML(htmlstring)	968.7 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: