innerHTML vs document fragment

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innerHTML
(function() {
 var i = 2000,
     container = document.createElement("div"),
     html = "";
 while (i--) html += "<div></div>";
 container.innerHTML = html;
}());
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document fragment
(function() {
 var i = 2000,
     container = document.createElement("div"),
     frag = document.createDocumentFragment();
 while (i--) frag.appendChild(document.createElement("div"));
 container.appendChild(frag);
}());
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