Run results for: innerhtml vs removechild vs remove vs removeLast

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/130.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 130

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

removeChild

15.1M/s

remove

14.9M/s

remove last

14.7M/s

innerHTML

5.1M/s

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HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

var node = document.getElementById('container');

for(var i = 0; i < 10000; 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();
remove last
while (node.lastChild) node.lastChild.remove();