Benchmark: innerhtml vs removeChild-firstChild vs removeChild-lastChild

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="container"></div>

Script Preparation code:

var node = document.getElementById('container');

for(var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) node.appendChild(document.createElement('div'));

Tests:

innerHTML
var node = document.getElementById('container'); node.innerHTML = '';
removeChild-firstChild
var node = document.getElementById('container'); while(node.firstChild) node.removeChild(node.firstChild)
removeChild-lastChild
var node = document.getElementById('container'); while(node.lastChild) node.removeChild(node.lastChild)

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 2 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 104 on Mac OS X 10.14.6

innerhtml vs removeChild-firstChild vs removeChild-lastChild (version: 0)