Run results for: setAttribute vs. dataset vs. direct

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/135.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 135

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="foo"></div>

Tests:

setAttribute
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.setAttribute("foo", "bar"); }
dataset
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.dataset.foo = 'bar'; }
direct
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.foo = 'bar'; }