Run results for: innerhtml vs removechild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 11; en-US; SM-N975U Build/RP1A.200720.012) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/78.0.3904.108 UCBrowser/13.4.0.1306 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: UC Browser 13

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
innerHTML	661313.0 Ops/sec
removeChild	2060093.6 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)

Run results for: innerhtml vs removechild

innerHTML

removeChild