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Run results for:
innerhtml vs removeChild-firstChild vs removeChild-lastChild
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Run details:
User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/134.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/134.0.0.0
Browser:
Chrome 134
Operating system:
Windows
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
one year ago
Test name
Executions per second
innerHTML
7960907.0 Ops/sec
removeChild-firstChild
14339680.0 Ops/sec
removeChild-lastChild
13707729.0 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-firstChild
var node = document.getElementById('container'); while(node.firstChild) node.removeChild(node.firstChild)
removeChild-lastChild
var node = document.getElementById('container'); while(node.lastChild) node.removeChild(node.lastChild)