Run results for: setAttribute vs dataset.attrName

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/143.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 143

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 8 months ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

setAttribute

2K/s

dataset

953/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ setAttribute	2,098 Ops/sec
dataset	953 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"; }