Run results for: createelement vs clone

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.86 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 73

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.14.3

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
create	418852.3 Ops/sec
clone	483625.7 Ops/sec

Tests:

create
var a1 = document.createElement('a'); var a2 = document.createElement('a'); var a3 = document.createElement('a');
clone
var a1 = document.createElement('a'); var a2 = a1.cloneNode(); var a3 = a1.cloneNode();