Run results for: jQuery addClass vs classList.add

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36 Edg/91.0.864.64

Browser: Chrome 91

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
jQuery addClass	681196.9 Ops/sec
Javascript classList.add	1755063.0 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="el"></div>

Script Preparation code:

document.getElementById("el").classList.remove("test");

Tests: