Run results for: nodeType vs instanceof

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:151.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/151.0

Browser: Firefox 151

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 months ago

nodeType literal

47.5M/s

nodeType

47.5M/s

instanceof

28.4M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ nodeType literal	47,545,816 Ops/sec
nodeType	47,502,192 Ops/sec
instanceof	28,427,340 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;