Run results for: createElement vs cloneNode

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/78.0.3904.70 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 78

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.14.3

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createElement	18.8 Ops/sec
cloneNode	25.6 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; }