Run results for: Parse vs InnerHTML

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.131 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 74

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
parse()	165757.0 Ops/sec
innerHTML	532415.8 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="demo"></div>

Script Preparation code:

  var html = ""
  
  for(var i = 0; i++; i < 1000){
     html += `<ol>
    <li>a</li>
    <li>b</li>
  </ol>
  <ol>
    <li>c</li>
    <li>d</li>
  </ol>`;
  }
  
  var demo = document.querySelector("#demo")
  var range = document.createRange();
  var parse = range.createContextualFragment.bind(range);

Tests:

parse()
demo.append(parse(html)); document.querySelector("#demo").innerHTML = ""
innerHTML
demo.innerHTML = html; document.querySelector("#demo").innerHTML = ""

Run results for: Parse vs InnerHTML

Parse vs InnerHTML

parse()

innerHTML