Benchmark: XHR vs fetch without JSON parsing

Tests:

xhr
const xhr = new XMLHttpRequest(); xhr.open('GET', 'https://www.googleapis.com/discovery/v1/apis'); xhr.onload = () => console.log(xhr.responseText); xhr.send();
fetch
fetch('https://www.googleapis.com/discovery/v1/apis').then(response => response.text()).then(console.log)

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Previous results

Test case name	Result
xhr
fetch

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 2 months ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 121 on Mac OS X 10.15.7

Test name	Executions per second
xhr	8510.6 Ops/sec
fetch	7857.7 Ops/sec

XHR vs fetch without JSON parsing (version: 0)