Benchmark: className vs classList normalization

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="foo" class="bar test    space  OK"></div>

Script Preparation code:

/*your preparation JavaScript code goes here
To execute async code during the script preparation, wrap it as function globalMeasureThatScriptPrepareFunction, example:*/
async function globalMeasureThatScriptPrepareFunction() {
    // This function is optional, feel free to remove it.
    // await someThing();
}

Tests:

className
let element = document.getElementById("foo"); let i = 1000; while (i--) { let selector = "." + element.className.trim().replace(/\s+/g, '.'); }
classList with array from
let element = document.getElementById("foo"); let i = 1000; while (i--) { let selector = "." + Array.from(element.classList).join('.'); }
classList with spread operator
let element = document.getElementById("foo"); let i = 1000; while (i--) { let selector = "." + [...element.classList].join('.'); }

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
className
classList with array from
classList with spread operator

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: one year ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 133 on Windows

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className

8K/s

classList with spread operator

2K/s

classList with array from

1K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ className	8,298 Ops/sec
classList with spread operator	1,624 Ops/sec
classList with array from	1,350 Ops/sec

className vs classList normalization (version: 1)

Comparing performance of: `className vs classList with array from vs classList with spread operator`

Created: one year ago by: Guest

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className

classList with array from

classList with spread operator

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

className vs classList normalization (version: 1)

Comparing performance of: className vs classList with array from vs classList with spread operator

Created: one year ago by: Guest

Go to the latest result

className

classList with array from

classList with spread operator

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Comparing performance of: `className vs classList with array from vs classList with spread operator`