Run results for: innerhtml vs removechild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 9; Redmi 7 Build/PKQ1.181021.001; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/86.0.4240.114 Mobile Safari/537.36 [FB_IAB/FB4A;FBAV/293.0.0.43.120;]

Browser: Chrome Mobile 86

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
innerHTML	782612.9 Ops/sec
removeChild	1095737.0 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