Run results for: removeChild vs children.remove

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 131

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

children.remove

3.0M/s

removeChild

2.3M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ children.remove	2,971,037 Ops/sec
removeChild	2,281,898 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:

removeChild
var node = document.getElementById('container'); while(node.firstChild) node.removeChild(node.firstChild)
children.remove
for(let i = node.children.length - 1; i >= 0; i--){ node.children[i].remove(); }