Run results for: createElement vs cloneNode

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 12_4_8 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/12.1.2 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 12

Operating system: iOS 12.4.8

Device Platform: Tablet

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createElement	5.1 Ops/sec
cloneNode	8.5 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; }