Run results for: createTextNode() vs cloneNode(false)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/100.0.4896.127 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 100

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createTextNode()	15.5 Ops/sec
cloneNode(false)	10.0 Ops/sec

Tests:

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