Run results for: nodeType vs instanceof

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 126

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

nodeType literal

3.2M/s

nodeType

3.2M/s

instanceof

2.7M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ nodeType literal	3,236,196 Ops/sec
nodeType	3,160,039 Ops/sec
instanceof	2,715,841 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var xs = [];
var n = 0;

for (let i = 0; i < 1000; ++i) {
  xs[i] = (Math.random() > .5) ? document.createElement(`a`) : document.createTextNode(``);
};

Tests:

nodeType
n += (xs[(Math.random() * 1000)|0].nodeType === Node.ELEMENT_NODE)|0;
instanceof
n += ((xs[(Math.random() * 1000)|0]) instanceof HTMLElement)|0;
nodeType literal
n += (xs[(Math.random() * 1000)|0].nodeType === 1)|0;