Benchmark: Empty vs. remove

HTML Preparation code:

<div class="remove" data-status="test">
  <h1>Heading</h1>
  <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit</p>
    <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit</p>
  <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit</p>
  <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit</p>
  <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit</p>
  <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit</p>
  <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit</p>
  <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit</p>
  <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit</p>

</div>
<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.js'></script>

Script Preparation code:

var container = $(".remove");

Tests:

Remove
container.remove();
Empty
container.empty();
Detach
container.detach();
Empty with data
container.empty(); container.removeAttr("data-status");
Detach with data
container.detach(); container.removeAttr("data-status");

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
Remove
Empty
Detach
Empty with data
Detach with data

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

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

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; Trident/7.0; secssobrowser; rv:11.0) like Gecko

Browser/OS: IE 11 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
Remove	110711.9 Ops/sec
Empty	616227.3 Ops/sec
Detach	4470495.0 Ops/sec
Empty with data	220865.1 Ops/sec
Detach with data	581274.3 Ops/sec

Empty vs. remove (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: Remove vs Empty vs Detach vs Empty with data vs Detach with data

Created: 4 years ago by: Guest

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Remove

Empty

Detach

Empty with data

Detach with data

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A