Run results for: dataset vs setAttribute

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:136.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/136.0

Browser: Firefox 136

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

setAttribute

20K/s

dataset

11K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ setAttribute	20,079 Ops/sec
dataset	10,709 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:


<div id='set' data-open="0"></div>

Tests:

dataset
const elem = document.getElementById("set"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { elem.dataset.open = "1"; }
setAttribute
const elem = document.getElementById("set"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { elem.setAttribute('data-open', '1') }