Run results for: getAttribute vs dataset

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Goanna/6.8 PaleMoon/34.0.1

Browser: Pale Moon (Firefox Variant) 34

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
getAttribute	186615.7 Ops/sec
dataset	858.3 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="foo" data-foo="foo_id"></div>

Tests:

getAttribute
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 10000; while (i--) { var foo = element.getAttribute("data-foo"); }
dataset
var element = document.getElementById("foo"); var i = 10000; while (i--) { var foo = element.dataset.foo; }