Benchmark: innerhtml vs removechild (table)1

HTML Preparation code:

<table><tbody id="container"></tbody></table>

Script Preparation code:

var node = document.getElementById('container');
const html = [];
for(var i = 0; i < 500; i++) html.push('<tr><td>aa</td><td>aa</td></tr>');
node.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', html.join(''));

Tests:

innerHTML
var node = document.getElementById('container'); node.innerHTML = '';
removeChild
var node = document.getElementById('container'); while(node.lastChild) node.removeChild(node.lastChild)
deleteRow
var tbody = document.getElementById('container'); var tbl = tbody.parentElement; var count = tbl.rows.length; for(var i = 1; i < count; i++){ tbl.deleteRow(i); }

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
innerHTML
removeChild
deleteRow

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 2 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/113.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/113.0.1774.57

Browser/OS: Chrome 113 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
innerHTML	260378.3 Ops/sec
removeChild	3210320.8 Ops/sec
deleteRow	2522108.8 Ops/sec

Related benchmarks:

innerhtml vs removechild (table)1 (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: innerHTML vs removeChild vs deleteRow

Created: 2 years ago by: Guest

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innerHTML

removeChild

deleteRow

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A