Run results for: innerhtml vs removechild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3163.100 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 61

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.12.6

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 6 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
innerHTML	118633.7 Ops/sec
removeChild	747438.3 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<select id="container"></select>

Script Preparation code:

var node = document.getElementById('container');

for(var i = 0; i < 300; i++) {
  var option = document.createElement('option');
  option.value = "Some text"
  node.appendChild(option);
}

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