Run results for: innerhtml vs removechild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 7.1.1; SM-N950F Build/NMF26X) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/66.0.3359.126 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 66

Operating system: Android 7.1.1

Device Platform: Samsung SM-N950F

Date tested: 6 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
innerHTML	760656.7 Ops/sec
removeChild	1250143.0 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)

Run results for: innerhtml vs removechild

innerHTML

removeChild