Run results for: createElement vs cloneNode

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:92.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/92.0

Browser: Firefox 92

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createElement	3.7 Ops/sec
cloneNode	7.1 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; }