Run results for: createComment vs cloneNode

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/100.0.4896.60 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 100

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createComment	13.5 Ops/sec
cloneNode	22.8 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var MAX_ITERATIONS = 100000;

Tests:

createComment
const list = []; for(let i = 0; i < MAX_ITERATIONS; i++) { list.push(document.createComment('this is a comment')); }
cloneNode
const src = document.createComment('this is a comment'); const list = []; for(let i = 0; i < MAX_ITERATIONS; i++) { list.push(src.cloneNode()); }