Run results for: createElement vs cloneNode

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/96.0.4664.174 YaBrowser/22.1.4.840 Yowser/2.5 Safari/537.36

Browser: Yandex Browser 22

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createElement	26.8 Ops/sec
cloneNode	35.2 Ops/sec

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; }

Run results for: createElement vs cloneNode

Faster way to create new dom elements before insertion

createElement

cloneNode