Benchmark: template innerHTML vs DocumentFragment vs createElement - createTextNode 2

Tests:

template
const tpl = document.createElement('template'); tpl.innerHTML = ` <div> <h1>Heading</h1> <p>Paragraph 1</p> <p>Paragraph 2</p> <button>Button</button> </div> `; const el = tpl.content.firstElementChild document.documentElement.appendChild(el.cloneNode());
DocumentFragment createTextNode
const fragment = document.createDocumentFragment(); const el = document.createElement('div'); const heading = document.createElement('h1'); const para1 = document.createElement('p'); const para2 = document.createElement('p'); const button = document.createElement('button'); const headingText = document.createTextNode('Heading'); const para1Text = document.createTextNode('Paragraph 1'); const para2Text = document.createTextNode('Paragraph 2'); const buttonText = document.createTextNode('Button'); heading.appendChild(headingText); para1.appendChild(para1Text); para2.appendChild(para2Text); button.appendChild(buttonText); el.appendChild(heading); el.appendChild(para1); el.appendChild(para2); el.appendChild(button); fragment.appendChild(el); document.documentElement.appendChild(fragment);
createElement
// const fragment = document.createDocumentFragment(); const el = document.createElement('div'); const heading = document.createElement('h1'); const para1 = document.createElement('p'); const para2 = document.createElement('p'); const button = document.createElement('button'); heading.innerText = 'Heading'; para1.innerText = 'Paragraph 1'; para2.innerText = 'Paragraph 2'; button.innerText = 'Button'; el.appendChild(heading); el.appendChild(para1); el.appendChild(para2); el.appendChild(button); // fragment.appendChild(el); document.documentElement.appendChild(el);
createElement createTextNode
// const fragment = document.createDocumentFragment(); const el = document.createElement('div'); const heading = document.createElement('h1'); const para1 = document.createElement('p'); const para2 = document.createElement('p'); const button = document.createElement('button'); const headingText = document.createTextNode('Heading'); const para1Text = document.createTextNode('Paragraph 1'); const para2Text = document.createTextNode('Paragraph 2'); const buttonText = document.createTextNode('Button'); heading.appendChild(headingText); para1.appendChild(para1Text); para2.appendChild(para2Text); button.appendChild(buttonText); el.appendChild(heading); el.appendChild(para1); el.appendChild(para2); el.appendChild(button); // fragment.appendChild(el); document.documentElement.appendChild(el);
DocumentFragment
const fragment = document.createDocumentFragment(); const el = document.createElement('div'); const heading = document.createElement('h1'); const para1 = document.createElement('p'); const para2 = document.createElement('p'); const button = document.createElement('button'); heading.innerText = 'Heading'; para1.innerText = 'Paragraph 1'; para2.innerText = 'Paragraph 2'; button.innerText = 'Button'; el.appendChild(heading); el.appendChild(para1); el.appendChild(para2); el.appendChild(button); fragment.appendChild(el); document.documentElement.appendChild(fragment);

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

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Previous results

Test case name	Result
template
DocumentFragment createTextNode
createElement
createElement createTextNode
DocumentFragment

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated one month ago):

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I'll break down the benchmark definition and explain what's being tested.

The benchmark is comparing three approaches to create a HTML structure:

1. **Template innerHTML**: This approach uses `innerHTML` property of a `template` element to set its content, which is then cloned and appended to the document body.
2. **DocumentFragment with `createTextNode`**: This approach creates a `DocumentFragment`, populates it with text nodes (using `createTextNode`) and then appends the fragment to the document body.
3. **Element creation with `innerText`**: This approach creates individual HTML elements (e.g., headings, paragraphs, buttons) using `createElement` and sets their `innerText` property instead of setting innerHTML.

Now, let's discuss the pros and cons of each approach:

**Template innerHTML**

Pros:

* Easy to implement
* Fast cloning performance

Cons:

* Can be vulnerable to XSS attacks if not sanitized
* May lead to unnecessary DOM mutations (e.g., creating a new template element)

**DocumentFragment with `createTextNode`**

Pros:

* Efficient use of memory, as text nodes are created separately from HTML elements
* Faster cloning performance compared to individual HTML elements

Cons:

* Requires more code and setup (creating a fragment, appending text nodes)
* May lead to additional DOM mutations (e.g., creating a new fragment)

**Element creation with `innerText`**

Pros:

* Fast and efficient way to set inner content of elements
* Reduced risk of XSS attacks due to proper sanitation

Cons:

* May lead to slower performance compared to other approaches (cloning individual HTML elements)
* More code is required, as each element needs to be created separately.

Other considerations:

* The benchmark measures the execution frequency per second (`ExecutionsPerSecond`), which indicates the overhead of cloning or appending elements.
* The results will help determine which approach is fastest and most efficient for rendering HTML content in a specific use case.

As for the libraries used, none are explicitly mentioned in the provided benchmark definition. However, it's worth noting that `createTextNode` is a method of the `Document` interface, which is part of the DOM (Document Object Model).

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 2 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:101.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/101.0

Browser/OS: Firefox 101 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
template	88706.3 Ops/sec
DocumentFragment createTextNode	99746.1 Ops/sec
createElement	128111.0 Ops/sec
createElement createTextNode	128457.5 Ops/sec
DocumentFragment	62727.3 Ops/sec

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template

DocumentFragment createTextNode

createElement

createElement createTextNode

DocumentFragment

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Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated one month ago):