Setting one HTML5 Canvas Pixel (v5)

Revision 5 of this benchmark created on

Description

Testing 'reasonable' methods to set one pixel on an HTML5 Canvas; used to support this Stack Overflow question.

Preparation HTML

<p>(Scroll down to see the 'Run Tests' button.)</p>
<canvas id="c" width="800" height="300"></canvas>
<script>
  $c = document.getElementById('c');
  $ctx = $c.getContext('2d');
  $ctx.clearRect(0, 0, 800, 300);
  $px = $ctx.createImageData(1, 1);
  $pxls = [];
  // Precompute random pixels so this time isn't included in the tests
  for (var i = 0; i < 10000; ++i) $pxls.push({
   x: Math.random() * 800 << 0,
   y: Math.random() * 300 << 0,
   r: Math.random() * 255 << 0,
   g: Math.random() * 255 << 0,
   b: Math.random() * 255 << 0,
   a: Math.random() * 128 << 0 + 128
  });
  $i = 0;
</script>

Test runner

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Testing in
TestOps/sec
get/putImageData
var px = $pxls[$i++ % 10000];
var idata = $ctx.getImageData(0, 0, 800, 300);
var d = idata.data;
var o = (px.y * 800 + px.x) * 4;
d[o] = px.r;
d[o + 1] = px.g;
d[o + 2] = px.b;
d[o + 3] = px.a;
$ctx.putImageData(idata, 0, 0);
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fillRect
var px = $pxls[$i++ % 10000];
$ctx.fillStyle = 'rgba(' + px.r + ',' + px.g + ',' + px.b + ',' + (px.a / 255) + ')';
$ctx.fillRect(px.x, px.y, 1, 1);
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1x1 image data
var px = $pxls[$i++ % 10000];
var d = $px.data;
d[0] = px.r;
d[1] = px.g;
d[2] = px.b;
d[3] = px.a;
$ctx.putImageData($px, px.x, px.y);
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