Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/88.0.4324.96 Safari/537.36
Chrome 88
Mac OS X 10.14.6
Desktop
3 years ago
Test name Executions per second
createElement 378.5 Ops/sec
insertAdjacentHTML 679.4 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
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<div id="test"></div>
Tests:
  • createElement

     
    newElement = document.createElement("div");
    newElement.id = "testing"
    for (i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
      let newElementPart = document.createElement("div");
      newElementPart.classList.add("testClass");
      newElement.append(newElementPart);
    }
    document.getElementById("test").append(newElement);
  • insertAdjacentHTML

     
    html = "<div id='testing'>"
    for (i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
      html += "<div class='testClass'></div>";
    }
    html += "</div>";
    document.getElementById("test").insertAdjacentHTML("beforeend", html);