jQuery vs createElement (v14)

Revision 14 of this benchmark created on

Description

Benchmarks from answer on StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/268490/jquery-document-createelement-equivalent/268520

Preparation HTML

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js"></script>

Setup

function newe($tag) {       return document.createElement($tag);            }

Test runner

Ready to run.

Testing in
TestOps/sec
$('<div>')
$('<div>')
ready
$('<div></div>')
$('<div></div>')
ready
document.createElement
$(document.createElement('div'))
ready
shorthand function'd
$(newe('div'))
ready

Revisions

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