Run results for: nodeType vs instanceof 3

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

Browser: Firefox 78

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
nodeType	11019890.0 Ops/sec
instanceof	6688874.0 Ops/sec
nodeType literal	18641790.0 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)|0;
instanceof
n += ((xs[(Math.random() * 1000)|0]) instanceof HTMLElement)|0;
nodeType literal
n += ('nodeType' in xs[(Math.random() * 1000)|0])|0;

Run results for: nodeType vs instanceof 3

nodeType

instanceof

nodeType literal