Benchmark: replaceChild vs replaceChildren vs documentFragment

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

var elements = [document.createElement('div'), document.createElement('div')];
var fragment = document.createDocumentFragment();
var container = document.getElementById('container');

elements.forEach(element => fragment.appendChild(element));
container.appendChild(fragment);

Tests:

replaceChild
var changeIndex = 1; elements[changeIndex] = document.createElement('div'); container.replaceChild(elements[changeIndex], container.children[changeIndex]);
replaceChildren
var changeIndex = 1; elements[changeIndex] = document.createElement('div'); container.replaceChildren(elements)
append documentFragment
var changeIndex = 1; var newChildren = document.createDocumentFragment(); elements[changeIndex] = document.createElement('div'); elements.forEach(element => newChildren.appendChild(element)); while(container.firstChild) { container.firstChild.remove(); } container.appendChild(newChildren)

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
replaceChild
replaceChildren
append documentFragment

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 18 days ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 123 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
replaceChild	768312.6 Ops/sec
replaceChildren	464611.4 Ops/sec
append documentFragment	378454.6 Ops/sec

replaceChild vs replaceChildren vs documentFragment (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: replaceChild vs replaceChildren vs append documentFragment

Created: 2 years ago by: Registered User

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replaceChild

replaceChildren

append documentFragment

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A