Run results for: createElement vs cloneNode

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 13; SAMSUNG SM-G780F) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) SamsungBrowser/23.0 Chrome/115.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 115

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 7 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
createElement	6.4 Ops/sec
cloneNode	8.4 Ops/sec

Tests:

createElement
var list = [], n = 0; while(true) { n++; list.push(document.createElement('div')); if(n===100000) break; }
cloneNode
var list = [], n = 0, node = document.createElement('div'); while(true) { n++; list.push(node.cloneNode(true)); if(n===100000) break; }

Run results for: createElement vs cloneNode

Faster way to create new dom elements before insertion

createElement

cloneNode