Run results for: setFont measureText OffscreenCanvas vs Canvas

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.131 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 92

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Canvas	522894.0 Ops/sec
Offscreen	534176.3 Ops/sec
Canvas font	1818509.0 Ops/sec
Offscreen font	5847190.0 Ops/sec
Canvas textBaseline	5072036.0 Ops/sec
Offscreen textBaseline	4831064.0 Ops/sec
Canvas textAlign	5104876.0 Ops/sec
Offscreen textAlign	4724850.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
var context = canvas.getContext('2d');

var offscreenCanvas = new OffscreenCanvas(0, 0);
var offscreenContext = offscreenCanvas.getContext('2d');

Tests:

Canvas
context.measureText('M');
Offscreen
offscreenContext.measureText('M');
Canvas font
context.font = 'bold 48px serif';
Offscreen font
offscreenContext.font = 'bold 48px serif';
Canvas textBaseline
context.textBaseline = "hanging";
Offscreen textBaseline
offscreenContext.textBaseline = "hanging";
Canvas textAlign
context.textAlign = "center";
Offscreen textAlign
offscreenContext.textAlign = "center";

Run results for: setFont measureText OffscreenCanvas vs Canvas

DomCanvas vs OffscreenCanvas

Canvas

Offscreen

Canvas font

Offscreen font

Canvas textBaseline

Offscreen textBaseline

Canvas textAlign

Offscreen textAlign