Run results for: jQuery addClass vs classList.add

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/78.0.3904.97 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 78

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.1

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
jQuery addClass	519141.3 Ops/sec
Javascript classList.add	2036165.0 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: