Run results for: PutImageData vs DrawImage vs fillRect

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/130.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/130.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 130

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

rect

819K/s

DrawImage whole master into di canvas

668K/s

DrawImage half master into di canvas

389K/s

PutImageData half master into pid canvas

35K/s

PutImageData whole master into pid canvas

30K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ rect	819,120 Ops/sec
DrawImage whole master into di canvas	668,306 Ops/sec
DrawImage half master into di canvas	389,161 Ops/sec
PutImageData half master into pid canvas	35,285 Ops/sec
PutImageData whole master into pid canvas	29,880 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<canvas id='master' width='100' height='100'></canvas>
<canvas id='pid' width='100' height='100'></canvas>
<canvas id='di' width='100' height='100'></canvas>
<canvas id='rect' width='100' height='100'></canvas>

Script Preparation code:

var master = document.getElementById('master');
var masterctx = master.getContext('2d');
var pid = document.getElementById('pid').getContext('2d');
var di = document.getElementById('di').getContext('2d');
var rect = document.getElementById('rect').getContext('2d');

masterctx.fillRect(0,0,50,50);
masterctx.fillStyle = "red";
masterctx.fillRect(50,50,100,100);

Tests:

DrawImage whole master into di canvas
di.drawImage(master,0,0);
PutImageData whole master into pid canvas
let imgData = masterctx.getImageData(0,0,100,100); pid.putImageData(imgData,0,0);
DrawImage half master into di canvas
di.drawImage(master,25,0,50,100,25,0,50,100);
PutImageData half master into pid canvas
let imgData = masterctx.getImageData(25,0,75,100); pid.putImageData(imgData,25,0);
rect
rect.fillRect(0,0,50,50); rect.fillStyle = "red"; rect.fillRect(50,50,100,100);