Run results for: Remove children test with list

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:98.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/98.0

Browser: Firefox 98

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Remove firstChild	4124368.8 Ops/sec
RemoveChildren	995038.7 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id='messages'></div>

Script Preparation code:

let list = document.getElementById("messages");
for(i=0; i<1000; i++) {
	list.innerHTML += "<span>Text</span>"
}

Tests:

Remove firstChild
let list = document.getElementById("messages"); while (list.firstChild) { list.removeChild(list.firstChild); }
RemoveChildren
let list = document.getElementById("messages"); list.replaceChildren();