Run results for: createElement vs createContextualFragment

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.114 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 89

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createElement	263010.6 Ops/sec
createContextualFragment	244776.1 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div></div>

Tests:

createElement
const div = document.createElement('div') div.innerHTML = 'Hello'; return div.outerHTML;
createContextualFragment
const frag = document.createRange().createContextualFragment(`<div>Hello</div>`); const domNode = frag.firstElementChild; return domNode.outerHTML;