Run results for: document.createElement("audio") vs. blankAudioElement.cloneNode()

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/105.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 105

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
blankAudioElement.cloneNode()	98.2 Ops/sec
document.createElement("audio")	89.9 Ops/sec

Tests:

blankAudioElement.cloneNode()
var audio = document.createElement("audio"); var output = new Array(1000); for (var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) output[i] = audio.cloneNode();
document.createElement("audio")
var output = new Array(1000); for (var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) output[i] = document.createElement("audio");