Benchmark: Jquery remove vs removeChild..

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="wrap">
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</div>

Tests:

Jquery remove
var elem = $( "#wrap .list-item" ); elem.remove();
removeChild
var elem = document.querySelectorAll('#wrap .list-item'); for( var i = 0; i < elem.length; i++ ){ elem[i].parentNode.removeChild(elem[i]); }

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
Jquery remove
removeChild

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 5 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.102 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 70 on Windows 7

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Test name	Executions per second
Jquery remove	294091.5 Ops/sec
removeChild	580139.0 Ops/sec

Jquery remove vs removeChild.. (version: 0)

Jquery remove vs removeChild..

Comparing performance of: Jquery remove vs removeChild

Created: 5 years ago by: Guest

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Jquery remove

removeChild

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A