Run results for: innerhtml vs removechild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 12_0_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/604.1.34 (KHTML, like Gecko) GSA/61.0.217752169 Mobile/16A404 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 12

Operating system: iOS 12.0.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
innerHTML	662001.2 Ops/sec
removeChild	2578686.8 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)

Run results for: innerhtml vs removechild

innerHTML

removeChild