Run results for: setAttribute vs dataset.attrName

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/147.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 147

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 months ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

setAttribute

13K/s

dataset

6K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ setAttribute	13,248 Ops/sec
dataset	5,823 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"; }