Run results for: RGB vs RGBa vs HSL vs Hex using Canvas

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/131.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 131

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

RGBa

660K/s

RGB

120K/s

HSL

115K/s

Hex

104K/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ RGBa	660,361 Ops/sec
RGB	119,925 Ops/sec
HSL	114,747 Ops/sec
Hex	104,323 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<canvas id="canvasOne" width="400" height="400"></canvas>
<canvas id="canvasTwo" width="400" height="400"></canvas>
<canvas id="canvasThree" width="400" height="400"></canvas>
<canvas id="canvasFour" 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 canvasThree = document.getElementById("canvasThree");
var ctxThree = canvasThree.getContext("2d");

var canvasFour = document.getElementById("canvasFour");
var ctxFour = canvasFour.getContext("2d");

Tests:

RGBa
ctxTwo.fillStyle = 'rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3)'; ctxTwo.fillRect(0, 0, 400, 400); ctxOne.beginPath(); ctxOne.fillStyle = 'rgba(231, 76, 60, 0.1)'; ctxOne.arc(200, 200, 100, 0, Math.PI * 2, true); ctxOne.fill();
RGB
ctxTwo.fillStyle = 'rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3)'; ctxTwo.fillRect(0, 0, 400, 400); ctxTwo.beginPath(); ctxTwo.fillStyle = 'rgb(249, 206, 201)'; ctxTwo.arc(200, 200, 100, 0, Math.PI * 2, true); ctxTwo.fill();
Hex
ctxThree.fillStyle = 'rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3)'; ctxThree.fillRect(0, 0, 400, 400); ctxThree.beginPath(); ctxThree.fillStyle = '#f9cec9'; ctxThree.arc(200, 200, 100, 0, Math.PI * 2, true); ctxThree.fill();
HSL
ctxThree.fillStyle = 'rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3)'; ctxThree.fillRect(0, 0, 400, 400); ctxThree.beginPath(); ctxThree.fillStyle = 'hsl(15, 90%, 64%)'; ctxThree.arc(200, 200, 100, 0, Math.PI * 2, true); ctxThree.fill();