Run results for: createElement vs cloneNode

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.149 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 80

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.13.6

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createElement	5.2 Ops/sec
cloneNode	10.0 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; }