Run results for: createElement vs cloneNode

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 14_6 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.1.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 14

Operating system: iOS 14.6

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createElement	35.0 Ops/sec
cloneNode	41.1 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; }