Run results for: createElement vs createDocumentFragment 1

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/127.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 127

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
createElement	730.5 Ops/sec
createDocumentFragment	878.8 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

document.body.innerHTML = "";

Tests:

createElement
var root = document.createElement("div"); document.body.appendChild(root); for (var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { var e = document.createElement("span"); e.innerText = i + " text"; root.appendChild(e); }
createDocumentFragment
var frag = document.createDocumentFragment(); var root = document.createElement("div"); for (var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { var e = document.createElement("span"); e.innerText = i + " text"; root.appendChild(e); } document.body.appendChild(frag);