Benchmark: element.remove() vs display: none

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

var container = document.getElementById('container');
ul = document.createElement('ul');
var html = [];
    for ( var i=0; i<2000; i += 1 ) {
  	html.push(`<li>${i}</li>`);
}
 ul.innerHTML = html.join('');
 container.appendChild(ul);

Tests:

remove()
var element = ul.firstElementChild; while (element) { var element = ul.firstElementChild; element && element.remove(); }
display: none
var elements = Array.prototype.slice.call(container); for (var i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) { elements[i].style.display = "none"; }

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
remove()
display: none

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: one month ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 YaBrowser/24.1.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Yandex Browser 24 on Linux

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Test name	Executions per second
remove()	5634545.0 Ops/sec
display: none	1762199.0 Ops/sec

element.remove() vs display: none (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: remove() vs display: none

Created: one year ago by: Guest

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remove()

display: none

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A