Run results for: innerhtml vs removechild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 7.1.1; XT1710-02 Build/NDSS26.118-23-19-6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/68.0.3440.91 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 68

Operating system: Android 7.1.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
innerHTML	456766.7 Ops/sec
removeChild	629810.0 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)

Run results for: innerhtml vs removechild

innerHTML

removeChild