out of dom vs documentfragment Vs Inner HTML (v20)

Revision 20 of this benchmark created on

Description

innerHTML performs faster than all.

Preparation HTML

<div id="list1">
</div>
<div id="list2">
</div>

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innerHTML
var list = document.getElementById('list1');
var str = '<div>',
    i;
for (i = 0; i < 500; i++) {
  str = str + '<a style="display:block;">link' + i + '</a>';
}
list.innerHTML = str + '</div>';
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documentfragment
var list = document.getElementById('list2'),
    elem = document.createDocumentFragment(),
    elem2 = document.createElement('div');

list.innerHTML = "";
for (var i = 0; i < 500; i++) {
  a = document.createElement('a');
  a.innerHTML = 'link ' + i;
  a.style.display = 'block';
  elem.appendChild(a);
}
elem2.appendChild(elem);
list.appendChild(elem2);
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out of dom
var list = document.getElementById('list1'),
    elem = document.createElement('div');

list.innerHTML = "";
for (var i = 0; i < 500; i++) {
  a = document.createElement('a');
  a.innerHTML = 'link ' + i;
  a.style.display = 'block';
  elem.appendChild(a);
}
list.appendChild(elem);
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