Run results for: createElement vs cloneNode

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 8.1.0; ASUS_X00DDA) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.164 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 91

Operating system: Android 8.1.0

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createElement	0.4 Ops/sec
cloneNode	1.1 Ops/sec

Tests:

createElement
var list = [], n = 0; while(true) { n++; list.push(document.createElement('div')); list[list.length-1].appendChild(document.createElement('div')); list[list.length-1].appendChild(document.createElement('div')); if(n===100000) break; }
cloneNode
var list = [], n = 0, node = document.createElement('div'); node.appendChild(document.createElement('div')); node.appendChild(document.createElement('div')); while(true) { n++; list.push(node.cloneNode(true)); if(n===100000) break; }