Run results for: innerhtml vs removechild vs remove!

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Goanna/6.7 Firefox/128.0 PaleMoon/33.8.1.1

Browser: Pale Moon (Firefox Variant) 33

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 10 months ago

removeChild

1.2M/s

remove

1.2M/s

innerHTML

413K/s

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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)
remove
var node = document.getElementById('container'); while(node.firstChild) node.firstChild.remove()