Dom Manipulation - Js Templating vs programmatic jQuery

Benchmark created by Thomas Davis on

Description

What is faster, generating elements on the fly using jQuery appends and generator or using javascript templates.

Preparation HTML

<script src="http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/underscore.js/1.1.7/underscore-min.js"></script>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<!-- The Javascript template - using underscore.js -->
<script type="text/template" id="combo_template">
    <select> 
    <% _.each(values, function(value) { %>
        <option><%= value %></option>
    <% }); %>
    </select >
</script>

<div id="testcontainer" style="display: none;"></div>
<script>
  $("#testcontainer").empty();
  var values = ["SOMETHING", "THOMAS","THOMAS","THOMAS","THOMAS","THOMAS","THOMAS","THOMAS","THOMAS","THOMAS","THOMAS","THOMAS","THOMAS","THOMAS","THOMAS","THOMAS","THOMAS","THOMAS","THOMAS","THOMAS","THOMAS","THOMAS","THOMAS"];
</script>

Test runner

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Testing in
TestOps/sec
Javascript Templates
var html = $("#combo_template").html();
$("#testcontainer").append(_.template(html, {
  values: values
}));
ready
jQuery Append
var combo = $("<select/>");
var blah = values.length;
for( var i = 0; i<blah;i++){
  var value = $("<option/>");
value.text(values[i]);
combo.append(value);
}
$("#testcontainer").append(combo);
ready
Stringed Dom
var HTML = '<select>', blah = values.length;
for( var i = 0; i<blah;i++){
HTML += '<option>' + values[i] + '</option>';
}
HTML += '</select>';
$("#testcontainer").append(HTML);

// Fast but too messy imo
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