Run results for: innerhtml vs removechild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 8.1.0; SAMSUNG SM-T585) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) SamsungBrowser/11.1 Chrome/75.0.3770.143 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 75

Operating system: Android 8.1.0

Device Platform: Tablet

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
innerHTML	307175.0 Ops/sec
removeChild	442277.9 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

var node = document.getElementById('container');

for(var i = 0; i < 1000; 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)

Run results for: innerhtml vs removechild

innerHTML

removeChild