Run results for: innerhtml vs removechild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0

Browser: Firefox 57

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.13

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 2025 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
innerHTML	1758825.4 Ops/sec
removeChild	2659416.2 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 < 100; i++) node.appendChild(document.createElement('div'));

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

Tests:

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