Run results for: createElement vs createDocumentFragment 1

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 14_7_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.7 Mobile/15E148 DuckDuckGo/7 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Mobile Safari 14

Operating system: iOS 14.7.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createElement	713.1 Ops/sec
createDocumentFragment	591.9 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

document.body.innerHTML = "";

Tests:

createElement
var root = document.createElement("div"); document.body.appendChild(root); for (var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { var e = document.createElement("span"); e.innerText = i + " text"; root.appendChild(e); }
createDocumentFragment
var frag = document.createDocumentFragment(); var root = document.createElement("div"); for (var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { var e = document.createElement("span"); e.innerText = i + " text"; root.appendChild(e); } document.body.appendChild(frag);