Run results for: element.remove() vs display: none

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/107.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 107

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
remove()	4442141.0 Ops/sec
display: none	1474191.4 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="container"></div>

Script Preparation code:

var container = document.getElementById('container');
ul = document.createElement('ul');
var html = [];
    for ( var i=0; i<2000; i += 1 ) {
  	html.push(`<li>${i}</li>`);
}
 ul.innerHTML = html.join('');
 container.appendChild(ul);

Tests:

remove()
var element = ul.firstElementChild; while (element) { var element = ul.firstElementChild; element && element.remove(); }
display: none
var elements = Array.prototype.slice.call(container); for (var i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) { elements[i].style.display = "none"; }