Benchmark: Removal of DOM Element's Children (removeChild vs remove vs innerHTML vs textContent)

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests:

innerHTML
let node = document.getElementById('container'); node.innerHTML = '';
textContent
let node = document.getElementById('container'); node.textContent = '';
removeChild (firstChild)
let node = document.getElementById('container'); while (node.firstChild) node.removeChild(node.firstChild);
removeChild (lastChild)
let node = document.getElementById('container'); while (node.lastChild) node.removeChild(node.lastChild);
remove (firstChild)
let node = document.getElementById('container'); while (node.firstChild) node.firstChild.remove();
remove (lastChild)
let node = document.getElementById('container'); while (node.lastChild) node.lastChild.remove();

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

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

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/93.0.4577.82 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 93 on Mac OS X 10.15.7

Removal of DOM Element's Children (removeChild vs remove vs innerHTML vs textContent) (version: 0)