Run results for: Empty vs. remove

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.164 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 91

Operating system: Windows 7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Remove	269193.2 Ops/sec
Empty	528299.6 Ops/sec
Detach	2637451.0 Ops/sec
Empty with data	236472.8 Ops/sec
Detach with data	456542.8 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div class="remove" data-status="test">
  <h1>Heading</h1>
  <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit</p>
    <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit</p>
  <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit</p>
  <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit</p>
  <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit</p>
  <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit</p>
  <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit</p>
  <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit</p>
  <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit</p>

</div>
<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.js'></script>

Script Preparation code:

var container = $(".remove");

Tests:

Remove
container.remove();
Empty
container.empty();
Detach
container.detach();
Empty with data
container.empty(); container.removeAttr("data-status");
Detach with data
container.detach(); container.removeAttr("data-status");

Run results for: Empty vs. remove

Remove

Empty

Detach

Empty with data

Detach with data