Run results for: innerhtml vs removechild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0; LG-K430) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/88.0.4324.141 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 88

Operating system: Android 6.0

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
innerHTML	217347.9 Ops/sec
removeChild	244930.8 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)