String building (v4)

Revision 4 of this benchmark created on

Preparation HTML

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="result">

</div>

Setup

var append_string = "abc";

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Testing in
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Append to element that isn't in the DOM yet using +=
var result = $('<div/>');
result.innerHTML = '';
for (var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
  result.innerHTML += append_string;
}
ready
Build and then create element not in DOM
var result = "";
for (var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
  result += append_string;
}
$('<div/>').html(result)
ready
use jquery 'append' to element not in dom
var result = $('<div/>');
for (var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
  result.append(append_string);
}
ready

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