Run results for: createElement vs innerHTML(template)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:121.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/121.0

Browser: Firefox 121

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 10 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
createElement	9.1 Ops/sec
innerHTML	4.8 Ops/sec

Tests:

createElement
const list = []; let n = 0; while(true) { n++; list.push( document.createElement('div') .appendChild( Object.assign(document.createElement('p'), { className: 'font-bold', textContent: 'Hello!' }) ) ); if(n===100000) break; }
innerHTML
const list = []; let n = 0; const template = document.createElement('template'); while(true) { n++; template.innerHTML = '<div><p class="font-bold">Hello!</p></div>'; list.push(template.content.cloneNode(true)); if(n===100000) break; }