Run results for: addEventListener('resize') + innerWidth VS matchMedia() + matchMedia.addListener()

This benchmark compares using `addEventListener('resize')` with window.innerWidth versus window.matchMedia with it's`addListener()` function to see which is faster.

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Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.5112.81 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 104

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
matchMedia + addListener	269243.0 Ops/sec
resize + innerWidth	3821.8 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<style>
  #before:before {
  	content: "a";
 	 display: none;
  }
  @media(min-width: 200px) {
  	#body {
  		background: red;
  	content: "b";
  	}
  }
  @media(min-width: 600px) {
  	#body {
  		background: blue;
  	content: "c";
  	}
  }
  @media(min-width: 1000px) {
  	#body {
  		background: yellow;
  	content: "d";
  	}
  }
</style>
<div id="body">
</div>

Tests:

matchMedia + addListener
const matchMedia = window.matchMedia("(min-width: 400px)"); matchMedia.addListener((query) => { if (query.matches) { console.log(true); } })
resize + innerWidth
let currentWidth = window.innerWidth; window.addEventListener('resize', () => { currentWidth = window.innerWidth; }); if (currentWidth > 400) { console.log(true); }

Run results for: addEventListener('resize') + innerWidth VS matchMedia() + matchMedia.addListener()

This benchmark compares using `addEventListener('resize')` with window.innerWidth versus window.matchMedia with it's`addListener()` function to see which is faster.

matchMedia + addListener

resize + innerWidth