Run results for: Empty vs. remove

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 YaBrowser/24.7.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Yandex Browser 24

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

Detach

8.4M/s

Empty

2.0M/s

Detach with data

1.8M/s

Empty with data

1.0M/s

Remove

839K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Detach	8,399,769 Ops/sec
Empty	1,983,508 Ops/sec
Detach with data	1,806,701 Ops/sec
Empty with data	1,005,364 Ops/sec
Remove	838,980 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div class="remove" data-status="test">
  <h1>Heading</h1>
  <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit</p>
    <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit</p>
  <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit</p>
  <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit</p>
  <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit</p>
  <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit</p>
  <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit</p>
  <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit</p>
  <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit</p>

</div>
<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.js'></script>

Script Preparation code:

var container = $(".remove");

Tests:

Remove
container.remove();
Empty
container.empty();
Detach
container.detach();
Empty with data
container.empty(); container.removeAttr("data-status");
Detach with data
container.detach(); container.removeAttr("data-status");