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/149.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 149

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 months ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

setAttribute

10K/s

dataset

4K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ setAttribute	9,922 Ops/sec
dataset	3,640 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"; }