Run results for: innerHTML vs removeChild & appendChild v2

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_5) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.1.1 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 13

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.5

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
innerHTML	237221.7 Ops/sec
removeChild & appendChild	302545.1 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'));