append vs. innerHTML vs. fragment (v6)

Revision 6 of this benchmark created by Miles Elam on

Preparation HTML

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.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'),
      tmp = d.cloneNode();
  tmp.innerHTML = s;
  document.body.appendChild(d);

Teardown



            document.body.removeChild(d);

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Testing in
TestOps/sec
jQuery append
$(d).append(s);
ready
innerHTML
d.innerHTML = s;
ready
fragment
var frag = document.createDocumentFragment();
var elements = [];

for (var i=0, len=domArray.length; i<len; i++) {
  var el = domArray[i];
  var element = document.createElement(el.tag);
  for(var a in el.attr) {
    element.setAttribute(a, el.attr[a]);
  }
  if(el.text) {
    element.appendChild(document.createTextNode(el.text));
  }
  elements.push(element);
                
  if(el.parent == -1)
     frag.appendChild(element);
  else
     elements[el.parent].appendChild(element);
}
d.appendChild(frag);
ready
insertAdjacentHTML
d.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', s);
ready
surrogate
tmp.innerHTML = s;
d.appendChild( tmp.firstChild );
ready
clone
d.appendChild( tmp.cloneNode( true ) );
ready

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