Run results for: svg line element setAttribute vs. className.baseVal

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:123.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/123.0

Browser: Firefox 123

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

className.baseVal

16K/s

setAttribute

14K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ className.baseVal	16,001 Ops/sec
setAttribute	14,161 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><defs><symbol><line></line></symbol></defs></svg>

Script Preparation code:

var element = document.getElementsByTagName("line")[0];

Tests:

className.baseVal
var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.className.baseVal = "bar"; }
setAttribute
var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.setAttribute("class", "bar"); }