Benchmark: innerHTML vs removeChild

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Tests:

innerHTML
var myNode = document.getElementById("foo"); myNode.innerHTML = '';
removeChild
var myNode = document.getElementById("foo"); while (myNode.firstChild) { myNode.removeChild(myNode.firstChild); }

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
innerHTML
removeChild

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 25 days ago):

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A complex web page benchmarking scenario!

Based on the provided information, I'll attempt to analyze and infer the results of the benchmark tests.

**Individual test cases:**

1. `innerHTML`: This test case measures the time it takes to clear the inner HTML content of an element.
2. `removeChild`: This test case measures the time it takes to remove all child nodes from a node.

**Latest benchmark result:**

The latest benchmark results show two tests:

1. `removeChild` (with 638,0874.5 executions per second)
2. `innerHTML` (with 587,6741.0 executions per second)

These results suggest that the `removeChild` test is significantly faster than the `innerHTML` test on this specific system configuration (Safari 17, Mac OS X 10.15.7).

**Observations:**

* The `removeChild` test is approximately 9% faster than the `innerHTML` test.
* Both tests are executed at a very high rate, indicating that the browser and system can handle these types of operations efficiently.

Please note that these results are specific to this particular system configuration and may not be representative of other systems or browsers.

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 10 months ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.2.1 Safari/605.1.15

Browser/OS: Safari 17 on Mac OS X 10.15.7

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Test name	Executions per second
innerHTML	5876741.0 Ops/sec
removeChild	6380874.5 Ops/sec

Related benchmarks:

innerHTML vs removeChild (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: innerHTML vs removeChild

Created: 8 years ago by: Guest

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innerHTML

removeChild

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 25 days ago):