Benchmark: removeChild vs removeChild (backwards) vs children.remove vs children.remove (backwards)

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

var node = document.getElementById('container');
for(var i = 0; i < 10000; i++) node.appendChild(document.createElement('div'));

Tests:

removeChild
var node = document.getElementById('container'); while(node.firstChild) node.removeChild(node.firstChild)
removeChild (backwards)
var node = document.getElementById('container'); while(node.firstChild) node.removeChild(node.lastChild)
children.remove
var node = document.getElementById('container'); while(node.firstChild) node.firstChild.remove();
children.remove (backwards)
var node = document.getElementById('container'); while(node.firstChild) 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/96.0.4664.110 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 96 on Mac OS X 10.15.7

removeChild vs removeChild (backwards) vs children.remove vs children.remove (backwards) (version: 0)