Run results for: setAttribute vs dataset.attrName

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:143.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/143.0

Browser: Firefox 143

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

setAttribute

7K/s

dataset

5K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ setAttribute	7,195 Ops/sec
dataset	4,922 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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

Tests:

setAttribute
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.setAttribute("data-state", "active"); }
dataset
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.dataset.state = "active"; }