Run results for: createElement vs cloneNode

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_1) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.0.3 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 13

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.1

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
createElement	19.1 Ops/sec
cloneNode	28.8 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; }