Benchmark: createElement vs cloneNode shallow

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; }

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Previous results

Test case name	Result
createElement
cloneNode

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 4 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.140 Safari/537.36 Edge/18.17763

Browser/OS: Edge 18.17763 on Windows

Test name	Executions per second
createElement	13.9 Ops/sec
cloneNode	13.1 Ops/sec

createElement vs cloneNode shallow (version: 0)