Run results for: innerHTML vs replaceChildren to empty an element

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/135.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 135

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

replaceChildren

9.5M/s

innerHTML

280K/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ replaceChildren	9,523,645 Ops/sec
innerHTML	280,164 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<table>
  <tr>
    <td id="title"><span>Some text</span></td>
    <td id="url"><span>Some other text</span></td>
  </tr>
</table>

Script Preparation code:

const title = document.getElementById('title');
const url = document.getElementById('url');

Tests: