Run results for: Which scroll is best?

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 14_6 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) GSA/167.0.382489606 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 14

Operating system: iOS 14.6

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
set scrollLeft directly	2772.1 Ops/sec
use scrollTo	3007.1 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<main id="container" style="width: 100px; overflow-x: auto;"></main>

Script Preparation code:

const container = document.getElementById("container");

for (i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
    const elem = document.createElement('div');
    elem.style.width = "1000px";
    container.appendChild(document.createElement('div'));
}

Tests:

set scrollLeft directly
container.querySelectorAll('div').forEach(element => { element.scrollLeft = 500; });
use scrollTo
container.querySelectorAll('div').forEach(element => { element.scrollTo(500, 0); });

Run results for: Which scroll is best?

set scrollLeft directly

use scrollTo