Benchmark: Test (innerHTML, replaceChildren, remove, removeChild)

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="parent"></div>

Script Preparation code:

const node = document.getElementById('parent');
const child = document.createElement('div')
child.textContent = 'some text'

for(var i = 0; i < 5000; i++) node.appendChild(child);

Tests:

innerHTML
const node = document.getElementById('parent'); node.innerHTML = '';
replaceChildren
const node = document.getElementById('parent'); node.replaceChildren();
remove
const node = document.getElementById('parent'); while(node.firstChild) node.firstChild.remove()
removeChild
const node = document.getElementById('parent'); while(node.firstChild) node.removeChild(node.firstChild)

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
innerHTML
replaceChildren
remove
removeChild

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

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

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/143.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 143 on Mac OS X 10.15.7

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Test name	Executions per second
innerHTML	7039120.5 Ops/sec
replaceChildren	7248584.5 Ops/sec
remove	25336824.0 Ops/sec
removeChild	25380414.0 Ops/sec

Related benchmarks:

Test (innerHTML, replaceChildren, remove, removeChild) (version: 1)

Test (innerHTML, replaceChildren, remove, removeChild)

Comparing performance of: innerHTML vs replaceChildren vs remove vs removeChild

Created: one year ago by: Guest

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innerHTML

replaceChildren

remove

removeChild

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A