Run results for: removeChild vs no removeChild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 126

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
no removeChild	835930.8 Ops/sec
removeChild	594454.4 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var parent = document.createElement("div");
for (let k = 0; k < 100; k++)
  parent.appendChild(document.createElement("div"));

var child = parent.firstChild;

Tests:

no removeChild
parent.appendChild(child); parent.insertBefore(child, parent.firstChild);
removeChild
parent.removeChild(child); parent.appendChild(child); parent.removeChild(child); parent.insertBefore(child, parent.firstChild);