Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/95.0.4638.69 Safari/537.36 Edg/95.0.1020.53
Chrome 95
Windows
Desktop
3 years ago
Test name Executions per second
createElement 28.8 Ops/sec
createDocumentFragment 40.9 Ops/sec
Script Preparation code:
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document.body.innerHTML = "";
Tests:
  • createElement

     
    var root = document.createElement("div");
    document.body.appendChild(root);
    for (var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
        var e = document.createElement("span");
        e.innerText = i + " text";
        root.appendChild(e);
    }
  • createDocumentFragment

     
    var frag = document.createDocumentFragment();
    var root = document.createElement("div");
    for (var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
        var e = document.createElement("span");
        e.innerText = i + " text";
        root.appendChild(e);
    }
    document.body.appendChild(frag);