Run results for: innerhtml vs removechild(firstChild) vs removechild(lastChild) vs innerText vs replaceChildren()

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/130.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 130

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

removeChild

9.9M/s

removeChild backwards

9.9M/s

innerHTML

8.3M/s

replaceChildren

7.7M/s

innerText

7.3M/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 < 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 = '';
replaceChildren
var node = document.getElementById('container'); node.replaceChildren();