Run results for: createElement vs cloneNode

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/85.0.4183.102 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 85

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createElement	2.4 Ops/sec
cloneNode	6.3 Ops/sec

Tests:

createElement
var list = [], n = 0; while(true) { n++; list.push(document.createElement('div')); list[list.length-1].appendChild(document.createElement('div')); list[list.length-1].appendChild(document.createElement('div')); if(n===100000) break; }
cloneNode
var list = [], n = 0, node = document.createElement('div'); node.appendChild(document.createElement('div')); node.appendChild(document.createElement('div')); while(true) { n++; list.push(node.cloneNode(true)); if(n===100000) break; }