Run results for: createElement vs cloneNode

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 12; SAMSUNG SM-G991B) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) SamsungBrowser/18.0 Chrome/99.0.4844.88 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 99

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createElement	7.7 Ops/sec
cloneNode	12.3 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