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Run results for:
innerhtml vs removechild vs firstchild.remove
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Run details:
User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Browser:
Chrome 128
Operating system:
Linux
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
one year ago
Benchmark engine:
Benchmark.js
node.firstChild.remove
21.7M/s
removeChild
21.3M/s
innerHTML
11.3M/s
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Test name
Executions per second
✓
node.firstChild.remove
21,703,240 Ops/sec
removeChild
21,342,806 Ops/sec
innerHTML
11,274,576 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:
innerHTML
var node = document.getElementById('container'); node.innerHTML = '';
removeChild
var node = document.getElementById('container'); while(node.firstChild) node.removeChild(node.firstChild)
node.firstChild.remove
var node = document.getElementById('container'); while(node.firstChild) node.firstChild.remove()