Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 9; Redmi Note 8) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/93.0.4577.82 Mobile Safari/537.36
Chrome Mobile 93
Android
Mobile
3 years ago
Test name Executions per second
createElement 0.3 Ops/sec
cloneNode 3.5 Ops/sec
Tests:
  • createElement

    AخA
     
    var list = [],
        n = 0;
    while(true) {
        n++;
        const div = document.createElement('div');
        div.innerHTML = '<span style="display: block; color: red;">hey you</span>'
        list.push();
        if(n===100000) 
            break;
    }
  • cloneNode

     
    var list = [],
        n = 0,
        node = document.createElement('div');
    node.innerHTML = '<span style="display: block; color: red;">hey you</span>'
    while(true) {
        n++;
        list.push(node.cloneNode(true));
        if(n===100000) 
            break;
    }