Benchmark: 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:

removeChild
var element = ul.firstElementChild; while (element) { var element = ul.firstElementChild; element && ul.removeChild(element); }
display:none
ul.style.display = "none";

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
removeChild
display:none

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 3 months ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 121 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
removeChild	8849306.0 Ops/sec
display:none	1484536.0 Ops/sec

remove vs display:none (version: 5)

Comparing performance of: removeChild vs display:none

Created: 5 years ago by: Registered User

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removeChild

display:none

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A