Run results for: Parse vs InnerHTML

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0

Browser: Firefox 61

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.11

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
parse()	123961.0 Ops/sec
innerHTML	803788.3 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="demo"></div>

Script Preparation code:

  var html = ""
  
  for(var i = 0; i++; i < 1000){
     html += `<ol>
    <li>a</li>
    <li>b</li>
  </ol>
  <ol>
    <li>c</li>
    <li>d</li>
  </ol>`;
  }
  
  var demo = document.querySelector("#demo")
  var range = document.createRange();
  var parse = range.createContextualFragment.bind(range);

Tests:

parse()
demo.append(parse(html)); document.querySelector("#demo").innerHTML = ""
innerHTML
demo.innerHTML = html; document.querySelector("#demo").innerHTML = ""

Run results for: Parse vs InnerHTML

Parse vs InnerHTML

parse()

innerHTML