Run results for: innerhtml vs removechild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 7.0; TECNO W1 Build/NRD90M) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.137 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 64

Operating system: Android 7.0

Device Platform: TECNO W1

Date tested: 2024 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
innerHTML	37381.0 Ops/sec
removeChild	259585.2 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)