Run results for: rgb vs rgba vs hex

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0

Browser: Firefox 115

Operating system: Windows 7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

alpha

10K/s

no alpha

10K/s

hex

9K/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ alpha	10,159 Ops/sec
no alpha	9,935 Ops/sec
hex	8,531 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<canvas id="canvasOne" width="400" height="400"></canvas>
<canvas id="canvasTwo" width="400" height="400"></canvas>
<canvas id="canvasThr" width="400" height="400"></canvas>

Script Preparation code:

var canvasOne = document.getElementById("canvasOne");
var ctxOne = canvasOne.getContext("2d");

var canvasTwo = document.getElementById("canvasTwo");
var ctxTwo = canvasTwo.getContext("2d");

var canvasThr = document.getElementById("canvasThr");
var ctxThr = canvasThr.getContext("2d");

Tests:

alpha
ctxTwo.fillStyle = 'rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3)'; ctxTwo.fillRect(0, 0, 400, 400); ctxOne.beginPath(); ctxOne.fillStyle = 'rgba(255, 255, 255, 1)'; ctxOne.arc(200, 200, 100, 0, Math.PI * 2, true); ctxOne.fill();
no alpha
ctxTwo.fillStyle = 'rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3)'; ctxTwo.fillRect(0, 0, 400, 400); ctxTwo.beginPath(); ctxTwo.fillStyle = 'rgb(255, 255, 255)'; ctxTwo.arc(200, 200, 100, 0, Math.PI * 2, true); ctxTwo.fill();
hex
ctxThr.fillStyle = 'rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3)'; ctxThr.fillRect(0, 0, 400, 400); ctxThr.beginPath(); ctxThr.fillStyle = '#fff'; ctxThr.arc(200, 200, 100, 0, Math.PI * 2, true); ctxThr.fill();