Benchmark: innerhtml vs removechild

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

var node = document.getElementById('container');

for(var i = 0; i < 30000; i++) node.appendChild(document.createElement('div'));

Tests:

innerHTML
var node = document.getElementById('container'); node.innerHTML = '';
removeFirstChild
var node = document.getElementById('container'); var i = node.children.length; while(i--) node.removeChild(node.firstChild)
removeLastChild
var node = document.getElementById('container'); var i = node.children.length; while(i--) node.removeChild(node.lastChild)
removeFirstChildNonIndex
var node = document.getElementById('container'); while(node.firstChild) node.removeChild(node.firstChild)

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 2024 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.132 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 63 on Windows

innerhtml vs removechild (version: 0)