Here's a benchmark: http://jsperf.com/dom-vs-innerhtml-based-templating/1079 http://jsperf.com/dom-vs-innerhtml-based-templating/1079 It looks like mobile chr

Here's a benchmark: http://jsperf.com/dom-vs-innerhtml-based-templating/1079 http://jsperf.com/dom-vs-innerhtml-based-templating/1079 It looks like mobile chrome can perform 500k string interpolations in a second, each one being about 500 bytes. So the time for 100 kilobytes would be approximately half a millisecond.