Run results for: dataset vs setAttribute

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/146.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 146

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 months ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

setAttribute

9K/s

dataset

5K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ setAttribute	8,913 Ops/sec
dataset	4,640 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:


<div id='set' data-open="0"></div>

Tests:

dataset
const elem = document.getElementById("set"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { elem.dataset.open = "1"; }
setAttribute
const elem = document.getElementById("set"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { elem.setAttribute('data-open', '1') }