Run results for: innerhtml vs removechild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12) AppleWebKit/602.1.50 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.0 Safari/602.1.50

Browser: Safari 10

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.12

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 7 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
innerHTML	778726.4 Ops/sec
removeChild	4220577.0 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)