d3.selection.append() vs jQuery.append() vs. Native DOM (v32)

Revision 32 of this benchmark created by bill on

Preparation HTML

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js">
</script>
<script src="http://bytes1.dyndns.org/BSI/website-app.js"></script>
<script src="http://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js"></script>

Setup

var s = '<div id="response" class="quiet-scrollbars"><div id="tools"><a href="#" id="addButt"></a><a href="#" id="horzButt"></a><div class="divider"></div><div id="layoutText">LAYOUT</div><a href="#" class="vert-active" id="vertButt"></a><a href="#" id="inspectButton"></a><div id="inspectText">Inspect</div><div class="presetPos" id="button">PRESETS</div></div><div id="track"></div><input type="range" min="0" id="slider">';
  
  
  var domArray = [{
    tag: "div",
    attr: {
      id: "response",
      class: "quiet-scrollbars"
    },
    parent: -1
  }, {
    tag: "div",
    attr: {
      id: "tools"
    },
    parent: 0
  }, {
    tag: "a",
    attr: {
      id: "addButt",
      href: "#"
    },
    parent: 1
  }, {
    tag: "a",
    attr: {
      id: "horzButt",
      href: "#"
    },
    parent: 1
  }, {
    tag: "a",
    attr: {
      class: "divider"
    },
    parent: 1
  }, {
    tag: "a",
    attr: {
      class: "divider"
    },
    parent: 1
  }, {
    tag: "div",
    attr: {
      id: "layoutText"
    },
    text: "LAYOUT",
    parent: 1
  }, {
    tag: "a",
    attr: {
      id: "vertButt",
      class: "vert-active"
    },
    parent: 1
  }, {
    tag: "div",
    attr: {
      id: "track"
    },
    parent: 0
  }, {
    tag: "input",
    attr: {
      id: "slider",
      type: "range",
      min: "0"
    },
    parent: 0
  }];
  
  var d = document.createElement('div');
  document.body.appendChild(d);

Teardown



            document.body.removeChild(d);

Test runner

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Testing in
TestOps/sec
DOM Fragment
var frag = document.createDocumentFragment();
var elements = [];
 var el ='';
while (el = domArray.shift()) {
  var element = document.createElement(el.ss ? el.ss :el.tag );
  for (var a in el.attr) {
    element.setAttribute(a, el.attr[a]);
  }
  if (el.text) {
    element.appendChild(document.createTextNode(el.ss ? el.ss : el.text));
  }
  elements.push(element);

  if (el.parent == -1)
    frag.appendChild(element);
  else
    elements[el.parent].appendChild(element);
}
d.appendChild(frag);
ready
DOM innerHTML
var frag = document.createDocumentFragment();  
var element = document.createElement("div");
frag.appendChild(element);
d.appendChild(frag);
ready
jQuery append
$(d).append(s);
ready
BSI.Node().append()
BSI.Node(d).append(s);
ready
BSI.util.makeDOMFragment
d.appendChild(BSI.util.makeDOMFragment(s))
ready

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