Run results for: createElement vs cloneNode vs JQuery

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/98.0.4758.102 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 98

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

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; }