Run results for: createElement vs createContextualFragment

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.93 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 90

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createElement	20235.7 Ops/sec
createContextualFragment	212517.7 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div></div>

Tests:

createElement
const div = document.createElement('div') div.innerHTML = 'Hello'; return div.outerHTML;
createContextualFragment
const frag = document.createRange().createContextualFragment(`<div>Hello</div>`); const domNode = frag.firstElementChild; return domNode.outerHTML;