Run results for: innerhtml vs removechild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 7.0; Mobile; rv:81.0) Gecko/81.0 Firefox/81.0

Browser: Firefox Mobile 81

Operating system: Android 7.0

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
innerHTML	418354.2 Ops/sec
removeChild	627726.3 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)