Run results for: jQuery(htmlstring) vs jQuery.parseHTML(htmlstring)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.98 Safari/537.36 Vivaldi/1.6.689.40

Browser: Chrome 55

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 7 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
jQuery(htmlstring)	7625.0 Ops/sec
jQuery.parseHTML(htmlstring)	1730.7 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

htmlstring = '<div class="pie"><a href="example.com"></div><br><p>blah</p><div class="something"><p>content</p></div>'

Tests: