Benchmark: innerhtml vs removechild vs remove vs removeLast

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

var node = document.getElementById('container');

for(var i = 0; i < 10000; i++) node.appendChild(document.createElement('div'));

Tests:

innerHTML
//var node = document.getElementById('container'); node.innerHTML = '';
removeChild
//var node = document.getElementById('container'); while(node.firstChild) node.removeChild(node.firstChild)
remove
//var node = document.getElementById('container'); while(node.firstChild) node.firstChild.remove();
remove last
while (node.lastChild) node.lastChild.remove();

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

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

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/85.0.4183.83 Safari/537.36 Edg/85.0.564.41

Browser/OS: Chrome 85 on Windows

innerhtml vs removechild vs remove vs removeLast (version: 4)