Benchmark: rgb vs rgba vs hex canvas

HTML Preparation code:

<canvas id="canvasOne" width="400" height="400"></canvas>
<canvas id="canvasTwo" width="400" height="400"></canvas>
<canvas id="canvasThr" 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 canvasThr = document.getElementById("canvasThr");
var ctxThr = canvasThr.getContext("2d");

Tests:

alpha
ctxOne.beginPath(); ctxOne.fillStyle = 'rgba(231, 76, 60, 0.1)'; ctxOne.arc(200, 200, 100, 0, Math.PI * 2, true); ctxOne.fill();
no alpha
ctxTwo.beginPath(); ctxTwo.fillStyle = 'rgb(249, 206, 201)'; ctxTwo.arc(200, 200, 100, 0, Math.PI * 2, true); ctxTwo.fill();
hex
ctxThr.beginPath(); ctxThr.fillStyle = '#f9cec9'; ctxThr.arc(200, 200, 100, 0, Math.PI * 2, true); ctxThr.fill();

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
alpha
no alpha
hex

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 3 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/84.0.4147.125 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 84 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
alpha	257674.8 Ops/sec
no alpha	256707.3 Ops/sec
hex	214081.5 Ops/sec

rgb vs rgba vs hex canvas (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: alpha vs no alpha vs hex

Created: 6 years ago by: Guest

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alpha

no alpha

hex

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A