Benchmark: Removing options Jquery vs JScript

HTML Preparation code:

<select id="test">
  <option value="test1">Test1</option>
  <option value="test2">Test1</option>
  <option value="test3">Test1</option>
</select>

Script Preparation code:

var testElem = document.getElementById("test");

Tests:

JScript Loop
while (testElem.options.length) { testElem.remove(0); }
innerhtml
testElem.innerHTML = '';
Jquery empty
$(testElem).empty();

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
JScript Loop
innerhtml
Jquery empty

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 26 days ago):

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**Overview of the Benchmark**

The provided JSON represents a JavaScript benchmarking test on MeasureThat.net, which compares the performance of removing options from a jQuery-selectable element using both jQuery's `remove()` method and Microsoft's JScript implementation (`JScript Loop`). The test also includes two additional benchmarks for removing all content from the element using `innerHTML` (including both jQuery's `empty()` function and JScript's built-in approach).

**What is being tested?**

The main focus of this benchmark is to compare the performance of:

1. Removing options from a jQuery-selectable element (`JQuery remove()` vs `JScript Loop`)
2. Clearing all content from an element using `innerHTML` (including both jQuery's `empty()` function and JScript's built-in approach)

**Options being compared**

Two main approaches are being tested:

### 1. Removing options using `jQuery.remove()` (or simply `remove()` in this case, since it's a jQuery method)

* **Pros:**
	+ Faster and more concise than manually iterating over the option elements.
	+ Takes advantage of jQuery's optimized DOM manipulation capabilities.
* **Cons:**
	+ May not be as efficient as manual iteration if the element has many options.

### 2. Removing options using `JScript Loop`

* **Pros:**
	+ Can be more efficient than `jQuery.remove()` for large elements with many options, as it avoids the overhead of jQuery's optimized DOM manipulation.
* **Cons:**
	+ Requires manual iteration over the option elements, which can be slower and less concise.

### 3. Clearing all content using `innerHTML`

* **Pros:**
	+ Fast and efficient, as `innerHTML` directly sets the element's content without needing to manually remove or append individual elements.
* **Cons:**
	+ May not preserve certain properties (e.g., event listeners) attached to individual elements.

**Libraries used**

The test includes two libraries:

1. **jQuery**: A popular JavaScript library for DOM manipulation, events, and AJAX.
2. **JScript**: Microsoft's proprietary JavaScript implementation, which is often used in older browsers or as an alternative to jQuery.

**Special JS feature or syntax**

No special features or syntax are being tested in this benchmark.

**Other alternatives**

For a more comprehensive comparison of removing options from elements, you could consider adding additional benchmarks for:

* Using `appendChild()` and then removing the element's content using `innerHTML`
* Using `replaceChild()` to replace the entire option element with an empty one
* Using a library like `dompurify` to sanitize and remove unwanted HTML content

Keep in mind that these alternatives might introduce additional complexity and may not be as straightforward to test or compare.

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 7 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 58 on Windows

View result in a separate tab

Test name	Executions per second
JScript Loop	5555816.5 Ops/sec
innerhtml	480660.0 Ops/sec
Jquery empty	998399.9 Ops/sec

Related benchmarks:

Removing options Jquery vs JScript (version: 1)

Comparing performance of: JScript Loop vs innerhtml vs Jquery empty

Created: 7 years ago by: Registered User

Jump to the latest result

JScript Loop

innerhtml

Jquery empty

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 26 days ago):