Run results for: PutImageData vs DrawImage

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.164 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 91

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
DrawImage whole master into di canvas	378286.6 Ops/sec
PutImageData whole master into pid canvas	12315.1 Ops/sec
DrawImage half master into di canvas	424915.9 Ops/sec
PutImageData half master into pid canvas	16658.1 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<canvas id='master' width='100' height='100'></canvas>
<canvas id='pid' width='100' height='100'></canvas>
<canvas id='di' width='100' height='100'></canvas>

Script Preparation code:

var master = document.getElementById('master');
var masterctx = master.getContext('2d');
var pid = document.getElementById('pid').getContext('2d');
var di = document.getElementById('di').getContext('2d');

masterctx.fillRect(0,0,50,50);
masterctx.fillStyle = "red";
masterctx.fillRect(50,50,100,100);

Tests:

DrawImage whole master into di canvas
di.drawImage(master,0,0);
PutImageData whole master into pid canvas
let imgData = masterctx.getImageData(0,0,100,100); pid.putImageData(imgData,0,0);
DrawImage half master into di canvas
di.drawImage(master,25,0,50,100,25,0,50,100);
PutImageData half master into pid canvas
let imgData = masterctx.getImageData(25,0,75,100); pid.putImageData(imgData,25,0);

Run results for: PutImageData vs DrawImage

GetImageData with PutImageData vs just DrawImage

DrawImage whole master into di canvas

PutImageData whole master into pid canvas

DrawImage half master into di canvas

PutImageData half master into pid canvas