Fastest method of clearing all children from a DOM element (v474)

Revision 474 of this benchmark created by Md. Enzam Hossain on

Preparation HTML

<div id="container"></div>

Setup

document.getElementById('container').innerHTML = '<div id="box"><span>Abc123</span><span>Abc123</span><span>Abc123</span><span>Abc123</span><span>Abc123</span><span>Abc123</span><span>Abc123</span><span>Abc123</span><span>Abc123</span><span>Abc123</span><span>Abc123</span><span>Abc123</span><span>Abc123</span><span>Abc123</span><span>Abc123</span><span>Abc123</span><span>Abc123</span><span>Abc123</span><span>Abc123</span><span>Abc123</span><span>Abc123</span><span>Abc123</span><span>Abc123</span><span>Abc123</span><span>Abc123</span><span>Abc123</span></div>';
  var box = document.getElementById('box');

Test runner

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removeChild(box.firstChild)
while (box.firstChild) {
  box.removeChild(box.firstChild);
}
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cloneNode(false)
box.replaceWith(box.cloneNode(false));
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innerText = ''
box.innerText = '';
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cachedLastChild
let child;
while (child = box.lastChild) {
  box.removeChild(child);
}
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removeChild(box.lastChild)
while (box.lastChild) {
  box.removeChild(box.lastChild);
}
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innerHTML = ''
box.innerHTML = '';
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removeChild(box.lastChild)
while (box.childNodes.length > 1) {
  box.removeChild(box.childNodes[box.childNodes.length - 2]);
}
box.removeChild(box.lastChild);
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textContent = '';
box.textContent = '';
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