Run results for: removeChild vs children.remove

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 131

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 3 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
removeChild	2281898.2 Ops/sec
children.remove	2971036.8 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

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

Script Preparation code:

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

for(var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) node.appendChild(document.createElement('div'));

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var node = document.getElementById('container');​for(var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) node.appendChild(document.createElement('div'));

Tests:

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

  for(let i = node.children.length - 1; i >= 0; i--){
    node.children[i].remove();
  }

 
  for(let i = node.children.length - 1; i >= 0; i--){    node.children[i].remove();  }