Run results for: innerhtml vs removechild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 11_2_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/88.0.4324.146 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 88

Operating system: Mac OS X 11.2.0

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
innerHTML	2675937.0 Ops/sec
removeChild	3461143.0 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)