Run results for: jquery(document.createelement).text.prop vs $(htmlstring)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/53.0.2785.143 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 53

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.11.3

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 7 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
jQuery props	90886.6 Ops/sec
jQuery htmlstring	38060.3 Ops/sec

Tests:

jQuery props
$(document.createElement('span')) .text('$') .addClass('costdollar')
jQuery htmlstring
$('<span class="costdollar">$</span>')