Run results for: createElement vs cloneNode vs JQuery

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 15_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/97.0.4692.72 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Chrome Mobile iOS 97

Operating system: iOS 15.2

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createElement	11.0 Ops/sec
cloneNode	17.4 Ops/sec
JQuery	4.6 Ops/sec
JQuery(cloneNode)	8.9 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.js'></script>

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; }
JQuery
var list = [], n = 0; while(true) { n++; list.push($('<div>')); if(n===100000) break; }
JQuery(cloneNode)
var list = [], n = 0, node = document.createElement('div'); while(true) { n++; list.push($(node.cloneNode(true))); if(n===100000) break; }

Run results for: createElement vs cloneNode vs JQuery

Faster way to create new dom elements before insertion

createElement

cloneNode

JQuery

JQuery(cloneNode)