Run results for: innerhtml vs removechild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 13099.72.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/84.0.4147.94 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 84

Operating system: Chrome OS 13099.72.0

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
innerHTML	1324908.0 Ops/sec
removeChild	1730940.0 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)