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Run results for:
innerhtml vs removechild vs remove!
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Run details:
User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Browser:
Chrome 121
Operating system:
Windows
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
2 years ago
remove
9.5M/s
removeChild
9.0M/s
innerHTML
7.7M/s
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Test name
Executions per second
✓
remove
9,520,050 Ops/sec
removeChild
9,017,808 Ops/sec
innerHTML
7,734,732 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)
remove
var node = document.getElementById('container'); while(node.firstChild) node.firstChild.remove()