Run results for: nodeType vs instanceof

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/86.0.4240.198 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 86

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.14.6

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
nodeType	529058.6 Ops/sec
instanceof	462516.2 Ops/sec
nodeType literal	736513.4 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var xs = [];
var n = 0;

for (let i = 0; i < 1000; ++i) {
  xs[i] = (Math.random() > .5) ? document.createElement(`a`) : document.createTextNode(``);
};

Tests:

nodeType
n += (xs[(Math.random() * 1000)|0].nodeType === Node.ELEMENT_NODE)|0;
instanceof
n += ((xs[(Math.random() * 1000)|0]) instanceof HTMLElement)|0;
nodeType literal
n += (xs[(Math.random() * 1000)|0].nodeType === 1)|0;

Run results for: nodeType vs instanceof

nodeType

instanceof

nodeType literal