Run results for: innerHTML vs replaceChildren to empty an element

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/109.0

Browser: Firefox 109

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 7 months ago

replaceChildren

3.9M/s

innerHTML

2.2M/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ replaceChildren	3,862,921 Ops/sec
innerHTML	2,172,148 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: