Run results for: createElement vs cloneNode (no children)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.1.1 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 14

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createElement	7.7 Ops/sec
cloneNode	9.1 Ops/sec

Tests:

createElement
var list = [], n = 0; while(true) { n++; var div = document.createElement("div"); div.style.display = "inline-block"; div.style.color = "red"; list.push(div); if(n===100000) break; }
cloneNode
var list = [], n = 0, node = document.createElement("div"); node.style.display = "inline-block"; node.style.color = "red"; while(true) { n++; list.push(node.cloneNode(true)); if(n===100000) break; }