Run results for: createElement vs cloneNode modified

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.169 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 74

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createElement	19.9 Ops/sec
cloneNode	11.4 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'); node.setAttribute('class', 'hover-highlight-td focus-highlight-td'); node.setAttribute('tabindex', "1"); node.addEventListener('touchstart', function(e) { e.target.focus(); }); while(true) { n++; list.push(node.cloneNode(false)); if(n===100000) break; }