Run results for: innerhtml vs removechild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/69.0.3497.100 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 69

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 6 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
innerHTML	3096040.0 Ops/sec
removeChild	2983273.8 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="container"></div>

AخA
 
<div id="container"></div>

Script Preparation code:

var node = document.getElementById('container');

for(var i = 0; i < 100; i++) node.appendChild(document.createElement('div'));

​x
 
var node = document.getElementById('container');​for(var i = 0; i < 100; i++) node.appendChild(document.createElement('div'));

Tests:

innerHTML
var node = document.getElementById('container');
var node = document.getElementById('container');
removeChild
var node = document.getElementById('container'); var child; while(child=node.firstChild) node.removeChild(child)
var node = document.getElementById('container');
var child;
while(child=node.firstChild) node.removeChild(child)