Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/88.0.4324.150 Safari/537.36
Chrome 88
Windows
Desktop
4 years ago
Test name Executions per second
removeChild 1883701.1 Ops/sec
children.remove 3375605.2 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
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1
<div id="container"></div>
Script Preparation code:
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var node = document.getElementById('container');
for(var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) node.appendChild(document.createElement('div'));
Tests:
  • removeChild

     
    var node = document.getElementById('container');
    while(node.firstChild) node.removeChild(node.firstChild)
  • children.remove

     
      for(let i = node.children.length - 1; i >= 0; i--){
        node.children[i].remove();
      }