Benchmark: visibility vs display 2

HTML Preparation code:

<style>
  d{display:none;}
  v{visibility:hidden;}
  o{opacity:0;}
</style>
<div class="dd d">Lorem Ipsum</div>
<div class="vv v">Lorem Ipsum</div>
<div class="oo o">Lorem Ipsum</div>
<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.js'></script>

Tests:

display
$("dd").toggleClass("d");
visibility
$("vv").toggleClass("v");
opacity
$("oo").toggleClass("o");

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
display
visibility
opacity

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 26 days ago):

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I'd be happy to explain the provided benchmark.

**What is tested?**

The benchmark measures the performance of three different CSS properties on HTML elements:

1. **Display**: The `display` property controls how an element is displayed (e.g., visible, hidden, inline, block). In this case, the test toggles the `d` class, which sets the display to "none".
2. **Visibility**: The `visibility` property controls whether an element is visible or not. In this case, the test toggles the `v` class, which sets the visibility to "hidden".
3. **Opacity**: The `opacity` property controls the transparency of an element. In this case, the test toggles the `o` class, which sets the opacity to 0 (fully transparent).

**Options compared**

The benchmark compares three different approaches for setting these CSS properties:

1. Using the `display` property
2. Using the `visibility` property
3. Using the `opacity` property

Each approach is tested separately.

**Pros and cons of each approach:**

* **Display**: This approach can be faster, as it only requires a single value change. However, if the element's display is already set to "none", this change may not have any noticeable effect.
* **Visibility**: This approach can also be fast, as visibility changes are often cached by browsers. However, if the element's visibility is already set to "hidden", this change may not have any noticeable effect either.
* **Opacity**: This approach might be slower, as opacity changes require more complex calculations.

**Other considerations:**

* The benchmark uses jQuery, a popular JavaScript library for DOM manipulation.
* The test cases use a specific HTML structure, with three elements (`dd`, `vv`, and `oo`) that are toggled using the respective classes.

**Special JS features or syntax:**

There is no special JavaScript feature or syntax used in this benchmark. The code uses standard JavaScript techniques to toggle CSS classes.

**Other alternatives:**

If you wanted to optimize the display, visibility, and opacity properties, you could consider using:

* **CSS transformations**: Instead of changing the display, visibility, or opacity values directly, you can use CSS transformations (e.g., `translateX()`, `scale()`) to achieve similar effects.
* **Animation libraries**: Libraries like AnimeJS or GSAP provide more advanced animation capabilities that might be suitable for dynamic CSS property changes.

Keep in mind that these alternatives would require additional code and might introduce performance overhead.

I hope this explanation helps you understand the benchmark!

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 4 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0

Browser/OS: Firefox 62 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
display	171663.6 Ops/sec
visibility	172979.2 Ops/sec
opacity	170463.5 Ops/sec

Related benchmarks:

visibility vs display 2 (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: display vs visibility vs opacity

Created: 4 years ago by: Guest

Jump to the latest result

display

visibility

opacity

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 26 days ago):