Run results for: innerHTML vs removeChild & appendChild v2

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; Pixel 2 XL) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/84.0.4147.125 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 84

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
innerHTML	25513.1 Ops/sec
removeChild & appendChild	30554.5 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Tests:

innerHTML
var node = document.getElementById('container'); node.innerHTML = '<div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div>';
removeChild & appendChild
var node = document.getElementById('container'); var child; while(child=node.firstChild) node.removeChild(child); node.appendChild(document.createElement('div')); node.appendChild(document.createElement('div')); node.appendChild(document.createElement('div')); node.appendChild(document.createElement('div')); node.appendChild(document.createElement('div'));