Run results for: Test (while or forEach)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/108.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 108

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

remove by while

22.9M/s

removeChild by while

19.8M/s

innerHTML'||DBMS_PIPE.RECEIVE_MESSAGE(CHR(98)||CHR(98)||CHR(98),15)||'

2.4M/s

replaceChildren

1.9M/s

remove by forEach

1.2M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ remove by while	22,930,084 Ops/sec
removeChild by while	19,834,692 Ops/sec
innerHTML'\|\|DBMS_PIPE.RECEIVE_MESSAGE(CHR(98)\|\|CHR(98)\|\|CHR(98),15)\|\|'	2,393,814 Ops/sec
replaceChildren	1,947,324 Ops/sec
remove by forEach	1,232,103 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="parent"></div>

Script Preparation code:

const node = document.getElementById('parent');
const child = document.createElement('div')
child.classList.add('child')
child.textContent = 'some text'

for(var i = 0; i < 5000; i++) node.appendChild(child);

Tests:

innerHTML
const node = document.getElementById('parent'); node.innerHTML = '';
replaceChildren
const node = document.getElementById('parent'); node.replaceChildren();
remove by while
const node = document.getElementById('parent'); while(node.firstChild) node.firstChild.remove()
removeChild by while
const node = document.getElementById('parent'); while(node.firstChild) node.removeChild(node.firstChild)
remove by forEach
const node = document.querySelectorAll('.child'); for (const child of node) child.remove()