Run results for: Setting the same value with setAttribute()

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

check cache and set nothing

167.6M/s

check and set nothing

51.5M/s

set the same value

12.0M/s

check and set the same value

7.0M/s

set a new value

4.6M/s

check cache and set a new value

4.6M/s

check and set a new value

2.0M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ check cache and set nothing	167,591,792 Ops/sec
check and set nothing	51,463,064 Ops/sec
set the same value	11,957,576 Ops/sec
check and set the same value	7,037,838 Ops/sec
set a new value	4,642,188 Ops/sec
check cache and set a new value	4,640,350 Ops/sec
check and set a new value	1,991,300 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<svg version="1.1"
     width="300" height="200"
     xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
  <rect id="rect1" width="100" height="100" fill="red" />
</svg>

Script Preparation code:

var rect = document.getElementById('rect1');
var width = Number(rect.getAttribute('width'));

Tests:

set the same value
rect.setAttribute('width', width);
check and set nothing
if (rect.getAttribute('width') !== `${width}`) { alert('this code does not run'); }
check and set a new value
if (rect.getAttribute('width') !== `${++width}`) { rect.setAttribute('width', width); }
set a new value
rect.setAttribute('width', ++width);
check cache and set nothing
const cache = width; if (cache !== width) { alert('this code does not run'); }
check cache and set a new value
const cache = width; if (cache !== ++width) { rect.setAttribute('width', width); }
check and set the same value
if (rect.getAttribute('width') === `${width}`) { rect.setAttribute('width', width); }