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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/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/125.0.0.0
Browser:
Chrome 125
Operating system:
Windows
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
2 years ago
Benchmark engine:
Benchmark.js
removeChild backwards
8.5M/s
removeChild
8.5M/s
innerHTML
6.5M/s
innerText
4.9M/s
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Test name
Executions per second
✓
removeChild backwards
8,537,174 Ops/sec
removeChild
8,469,573 Ops/sec
innerHTML
6,512,980 Ops/sec
innerText
4,892,354 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 = '';