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Run results for:
innerhtml vs removechild(firstChild) vs removechild(lastChild) vs innerText
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Run details:
User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:135.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/135.0
Browser:
Firefox 135
Operating system:
Windows
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
one year ago
Benchmark engine:
Benchmark.js
removeChild
6.3M/s
removeChild backwards
6.2M/s
innerHTML
4.8M/s
innerText
4.4M/s
View exact numbers
Test name
Executions per second
✓
removeChild
6,252,582 Ops/sec
removeChild backwards
6,198,136 Ops/sec
innerHTML
4,815,806 Ops/sec
innerText
4,410,844 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)
removeChild backwards
var node = document.getElementById('container'); while(node.lastChild) node.removeChild(node.lastChild)
innerText
var node = document.getElementById('container'); node.innerText = '';