Run results for: PutImageData vs DrawImage

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_3_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/135.0.7049.83 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Chrome Mobile iOS 135

Operating system: iOS 18.3.2

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

DrawImage whole master into di canvas

657K/s

DrawImage half master into di canvas

539K/s

PutImageData whole master into pid canvas

18K/s

PutImageData half master into pid canvas

10K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ DrawImage whole master into di canvas	657,484 Ops/sec
DrawImage half master into di canvas	539,006 Ops/sec
PutImageData whole master into pid canvas	17,556 Ops/sec
PutImageData half master into pid canvas	10,473 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>

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');

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);