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Run results for:
innerhtml vs removechild vs remove!
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Run details:
User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.3 Safari/605.1.15
Browser:
Safari 18
Operating system:
Mac OS X 10.15.7
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
one year ago
removeChild
36.6M/s
remove
36.0M/s
innerHTML
12.0M/s
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Test name
Executions per second
✓
removeChild
36,637,652 Ops/sec
remove
35,990,544 Ops/sec
innerHTML
11,954,938 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)
remove
var node = document.getElementById('container'); while(node.firstChild) node.firstChild.remove()