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Run results for:
innerhtml vs removechild(firstChild) vs removechild(lastChild) vs innerText
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Run details:
User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Browser:
Chrome 120
Operating system:
Windows
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
2 years ago
Benchmark engine:
Benchmark.js
removeChild backwards
10.0M/s
removeChild
9.9M/s
innerHTML
8.4M/s
innerText
6.1M/s
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Test name
Executions per second
✓
removeChild backwards
10,041,044 Ops/sec
removeChild
9,939,242 Ops/sec
innerHTML
8,400,242 Ops/sec
innerText
6,126,684 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)
removeChild backwards
var node = document.getElementById('container'); while(node.lastChild) node.removeChild(node.lastChild)
innerText
var node = document.getElementById('container'); node.innerText = '';