Run results for: createTextNode vs cloneNode

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.131 Safari/537.36 OPR/78.0.4093.147

Browser: Opera 78

Operating system: Windows 7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createTextNode	19.6 Ops/sec
cloneNode	8.4 Ops/sec

Tests:

createTextNode
var list = [], n = 0; while(true) { n++; list.push(document.createTextNode('hello, world!')); if(n===100000) break; }
cloneNode
var list = [], n = 0, node = document.createTextNode('empty'); while(true) { n++; t = node.cloneNode(true); t.textContent = 'hello, world'; list.push(t); if(n===100000) break; }