Run results for: jQuery addClass vs classList.add

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/68.0.3440.106 Chrome/68.0.3440.106 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chromium 68

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
jQuery addClass	621745.0 Ops/sec
Javascript classList.add	521894.8 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: