Run results for: parseFromString vs cloneNode

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64; rv:105.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/105.0

Browser: Firefox 105

Operating system: Windows 8.1

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
createElement	7.1 Ops/sec
cloneNode	19.8 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var markup = '<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="1.1"><g class="joint-port"/></svg>';

Tests:

createElement
var list = [], n = 0; while(true) { n++; list.push(new DOMParser().parseFromString(markup, 'text/xml')); if(n===1000) break; }
cloneNode
var list = [], n = 0, node = new DOMParser().parseFromString(markup, 'text/xml'); while(true) { n++; list.push(node.cloneNode(true)); if(n===1000) break; }