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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_3_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/134.0.6998.33 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Chrome Mobile iOS 134

Operating system: iOS 18.3.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

removeChild

172.7M/s

display:none on each element

24.8M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ removeChild	172,720,176 Ops/sec
display:none on each element	24,785,482 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"; }