Run results for: innerhtml vs removechild

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 114

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
innerHTML	874727.6 Ops/sec
removeChild	1124580.0 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)