jQuery vs createElement (v159)

Revision 159 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/1.8.2/jquery.min.js"></script>

Setup

$("body").empty();

Test runner

Ready to run.

Testing in
TestOps/sec
$('<div>')
$('<div>').append("body");
ready
$('<div></div>')
$('<div></div>').append("body");
ready
document.createElement
$(document.createElement('div')).append("body");
ready
$('<div />')
$('<div />').append("body");
ready

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