Benchmark: removeChild vs no removeChild

Script Preparation code:

var parent = document.createElement("div");
for (let k = 0; k < 100; k++)
  parent.appendChild(document.createElement("div"));

var child = parent.firstChild;

Tests:

no removeChild
parent.appendChild(child); parent.insertBefore(child, parent.firstChild);
removeChild
parent.removeChild(child); parent.appendChild(child); parent.removeChild(child); parent.insertBefore(child, parent.firstChild);

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
no removeChild
removeChild

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/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 126 on Linux

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Test name	Executions per second
no removeChild	835930.8 Ops/sec
removeChild	594454.4 Ops/sec

removeChild vs no removeChild (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: no removeChild vs removeChild

Created: one month ago by: Guest

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no removeChild

removeChild

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A