Benchmark: Empty Children - MeasureThat.net

HTML Preparation code:

<div id='container' />

Script Preparation code:

const items = document.createDocumentFragment();
for (let i = 0; i <= 3000; i++) {
    items.appendChild(document.createElement("div"));
}
const container = document.getElementById("container");
container.appendChild(items);

Tests:

innerHTML
container.innerHTML = "";
textContent
container.textContent = "";

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
innerHTML
textContent

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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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 10.15; rv:90.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/90.0

Browser/OS: Firefox 90 on Mac OS X 10.15

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Test name	Executions per second
innerHTML	1281501.0 Ops/sec
textContent	1283739.0 Ops/sec

Empty Children (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: innerHTML vs textContent

Created: 2 years ago by: Registered User

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innerHTML

textContent

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A