Run results for: innerhtml vs removechild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:100.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/100.0

Browser: Firefox 100

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
innerHTML	2575160.0 Ops/sec
removeChild	3705851.0 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)