Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.6.1 Safari/605.1.15
Safari 15
Mac OS X 10.15.7
Desktop
one year ago
Test name Executions per second
createElement 364.0 Ops/sec
createDocumentFragment 695.8 Ops/sec
Script Preparation code:
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document.body.innerHTML = "";
Tests:
  • createElement

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

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