Run results for: Create versus clone element

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.3 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 15

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
Create element	512.2 Ops/sec
Clone element	778.6 Ops/sec

Tests:

Create element
for(let i = 0; i < 10000; i++) { const div = document.createElement('div'); }
Clone element
const div = document.createElement('div'); for(let i = 0; i < 10000; i++) { const div2 = div.cloneNode(); }