Run results for: parseFromString vs cloneNode

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/94.0.4606.61 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 94

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createElement	12.4 Ops/sec
cloneNode	38.3 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var markup = '<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="1.1"><g class="joint-port"/></svg>';

Tests:

createElement
var list = [], n = 0; while(true) { n++; list.push(new DOMParser().parseFromString(markup, 'text/xml')); if(n===1000) break; }
cloneNode
var list = [], n = 0, node = new DOMParser().parseFromString(markup, 'text/xml'); while(true) { n++; list.push(node.cloneNode(true)); if(n===1000) break; }