Run results for: remove vs display:none on each element

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 OPR/95.0.0.0

Browser: Opera 95

Operating system: Windows 7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

removeChild

61.3M/s

display:none on each element

3.1M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ removeChild	61,250,480 Ops/sec
display:none on each element	3,131,955 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

var container = document.getElementById('container');
ul = document.createElement('ul');
var html = [];
    for ( var i=0; i<2000; i += 1 ) {
  	html.push(`<li>${i}</li>`);
}
 ul.innerHTML = html.join('');
 container.appendChild(ul);

Tests:

removeChild
var element = ul.firstElementChild; while (element) { var element = ul.firstElementChild; element && ul.removeChild(element); }
display:none on each element
var elements = Array.prototype.slice.call(container); for (var i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) { elements[i].style.display = "none"; }