Run results for: Image vs ImageBitmap+OffscreenCanvas

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.3 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 18

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

ImageBitmap/Offscreen

510.3M/s

Image

417.0M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ ImageBitmap/Offscreen	510,286,624 Ops/sec
Image	416,951,296 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var img = new Image();
var imageBitmap;
var doneLoading = false;
let canvas = document.createElement('canvas');

canvas.width = 640;
canvas.height = 480;
let canvas2 = document.createElement('canvas');
let offscreen = canvas2.transferControlToOffscreen();
offscreen.width = 640;
offscreen.height = 480;

var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
var ctx2 = offscreen.getContext('2d');

img.addEventListener('load', function() {
  Promise.all([
    createImageBitmap(img)
  ]).then(function(images) {
  imageBitmap = images[0];
  doneLoading = true;
}, false);
});

img.src = 'https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/447410261289205781/574359442913492992/unknown.png';

Tests:

Image
if (doneLoading) ctx.drawImage(img,0,0);
ImageBitmap/Offscreen
if (doneLoading) ctx2.drawImage(imageBitmap,0,0);