Run results for: innerHTML vs removeChild (checking and removing firstChild) vs removeChild (calling hasChildNodes and removing lastChild) vs removeChild (checking and removing lastChild)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.66 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 87

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
innerHTML	790030.8 Ops/sec
removeChild (checking and removing firstChild)	1133331.6 Ops/sec
removeChild (calling hasChildNodes and removing lastChild)	1147395.9 Ops/sec
removeChild (checking and removing lastChild)	1140745.9 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 (checking and removing firstChild)
var node = document.getElementById('container'); while(node.firstChild) node.removeChild(node.firstChild)
removeChild (calling hasChildNodes and removing lastChild)
var node = document.getElementById('container'); while(node.hasChildNodes()) node.removeChild(node.lastChild)
removeChild (checking and removing lastChild)
var node = document.getElementById('container'); while(node.lastChild) node.removeChild(node.lastChild)