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Run results for: createElement vs createDocumentFragment 2

ECMAScript createElement vs createDocumentFragment performance

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Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/105.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 OPR/91.0.4516.16
Opera 91
Linux
Desktop
2 years ago
Test name Executions per second
createElement 250.6 Ops/sec
createDocumentFragment 267.2 Ops/sec
Script Preparation code:
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document.body.innerHTML = "";
Tests:

  • createElement

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

  • createDocumentFragment

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