Run results for: innerhtml vs removechild(firstChild) vs removechild(lastChild) vs innerText vs replaceChildren()

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:140.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/140.0

Browser: Firefox 140

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 months ago

removeChild

2.2M/s

removeChild backwards

2.2M/s

innerHTML

1.7M/s

innerText

1.4M/s

replaceChildren

810K/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)
removeChild backwards
var node = document.getElementById('container'); while(node.lastChild) node.removeChild(node.lastChild)
innerText
var node = document.getElementById('container'); node.innerText = '';
replaceChildren
var node = document.getElementById('container'); node.replaceChildren();