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Run results for:
innerhtml vs removechild vs replacechildren
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Run details:
User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_6_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.6 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1
Browser:
Mobile Safari 18
Operating system:
iOS 18.6.2
Device Platform:
Mobile
Date tested:
11 months ago
removeChild
54.3M/s
innerHTML
21.3M/s
replaceChildren
17.2M/s
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Test name
Executions per second
✓
removeChild
54,315,196 Ops/sec
innerHTML
21,276,488 Ops/sec
replaceChildren
17,202,370 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)
replaceChildren
var node = document.getElementById('container'); node.replaceChildren();