Benchmark: Empty an element

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="parent">
  <div></div>

</div>

Script Preparation code:

var parent = document.getElementById('parent');

Tests:

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Previous results

Test case name	Result
textContent
innerHTML

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 6 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/69.0.3497.72 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 69 on Windows 7

Test name	Executions per second
textContent	7546722.0 Ops/sec
innerHTML	5335074.0 Ops/sec

Empty an element (version: 0)