Run results for: jQuery(htmlstring) vs jQuery.parseHTML(htmlstring)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.186 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 64

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.12.6

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 2025 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
jQuery(htmlstring)	11820.2 Ops/sec
jQuery.parseHTML(htmlstring)	2351.4 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

htmlstring = '<div class="pie"><a href="example.com"></div><br><p>blah</p><div class="something"><p>content</p></div>'

Tests: